PATRICIA A. SMITH
Born (1960) and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Smith’s upbringing gave her a unique perspective from an early age. She has lived in Cairo, Budapest, Athens (where she was once a lyricist for EMI Records) and New York. For many years, she was an executive in the cruise industry.
After hanging up her business suits, Smith spent the next several years living in the south of France, Denmark and Costa Rica where she collected objects and observations, experimented with furniture and design, made color palettes with food and hung out with some highly esteemed chefs before moving to Paris to focus on her two great loves – art and writing.
In spring 2001, after nearly two decades overseas, she returned permanently to the United States and settled in Florida where she currently resides, paints, collages, writes, invents and still cooks. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Florida and California, selected for a number of juried art shows and is collected throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Europe.
When she isn’t knee deep in paint or defending her right to the First Amendment and freedom of speech, she pays close attention to the world and her intuition; they both continue to guide her journey as an artist and a human being. If it doesn’t cause her to think (or crack up) it surely doesn’t find its way into her work – which is why occasionally she introduces herself as a “stay at home comedienne”.
You can follow her on Twitter as “nonconfromist”. Tweet, tweet.
