“I’m inspired by nature’s transcendent beauty. The changing and fleeting sunlight fills the sky with glorious colors and imbues the land with a spiritual aura. It’s the peaceful and ethereal moments in the outdoors that I focus on painting, not necessarily exact depictions of a particular place.

My oil paintings are built up with multiple layers of paint and glazes. I’m striving for landscapes with depth and richness of color, luminosity, and a convincing sense of distance and atmosphere. Representational but with a contemporary feel, these are strong statements about serene moments created to give a sense of my personal experience with nature.”

Patrice Erickson

Patrice’s paintings have been exhibited widely across Michigan in solo and group shows at venues such as the Ella Sharp Museum, Midland Center for the Arts, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Scarab Club, Sage Center for the Fine Arts, the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery at the University of Michigan Hospital, the University Center Fine Art Gallery at the University of Michigan-Flint, Rankin Art Gallery at Ferris State University, Artist Avenue Gallery of the Henry Ford Health System West Bloomfield , and City Gallery of Farmington Hills to name a few..

Erickson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1988 from Central Connecticut State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with high honors in 2002 from the University of Michigan-Flint. She studied classical academic oil painting and Italian Renaissance painting techniques with master artists, Frank Covino and Larry Blovits. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and currently resides in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

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