About the Artist
The child of puppeteers, Pat began traveling at age 14 with her parents, performing with marionettes and hand puppets throughout the eastern United States in schools, theaters and summer camps and later in commercial films and trade shows.In 1957 Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright invited Pat to join the Taliesin Fellowship of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and participate in its annual Festival of Music and Dance at the Fellowship's winter home near Scottsdale, Arizona. She was an apprentice and staff member there for nine years. In 1966 Pat moved to New York City to study watercolor painting with Mario Cooper, noted artist and long-time president of the American Watercolor Society, who taught for many years at the Art Students League. Much of what she learned from Cooper she passes along to her students today. Pat moved to Central Florida in 1989 where she shares her knowledge of painting, drawing and collage with adult students at the South Lake Art League and through private lessons. Pat Percy is a gifted artist...one who is fluent in watercolors, water soluble oils, acrylics, and collage. Her body of work could fill a gallery. Original pieces are not for sale but interested art collectors may obtain prints for a fraction of the price.
"I feel little connection with artwork that lacks a sense of the individual who created it. A work may be highly accomplished technically, but if what you see is only a realistic, photographic likeness of the subject it is a relatively lifeless. On the other hand, it can be highly accomplished technically and make such a rich and individual statement that you will always remember the work and the feelings it evokes. Then again, a passionate, seemingly shorthand statement of a subject can evoke great feeling and be complete.What the artist is able to convey of his or her own perceptions and sensibilities is what is important. And how does an artist know when a work is finished? When she has realized her intent."
"I feel little connection with artwork that lacks a sense of the individual who created it. A work may be highly accomplished technically, but if what you see is only a realistic, photographic likeness of the subject it is a relatively lifeless. On the other hand, it can be highly accomplished technically and make such a rich and individual statement that you will always remember the work and the feelings it evokes. Then again, a passionate, seemingly shorthand statement of a subject can evoke great feeling and be complete.What the artist is able to convey of his or her own perceptions and sensibilities is what is important. And how does an artist know when a work is finished? When she has realized her intent."