Biography
Patricia Whiting was born in Bolton in 1950. She graduated from Loughborough with a degree in Fine Art in 1971. After a period of working as an artist, exhibiting in Bolton and Manchester, whilst bringing up a family, she began a career in teaching.
Teaching art eventually led, through specialist training and a further MSc degree, to an Educational Audiology post in Bolton Sensory Service, working with deaf children aged 3 to 18.
Patricia continued to produce art throughout her career in deaf education in a variety of media including print, sculpture and painting. During the course of her teaching she developed skills in visual presentation and digital animation which became her key expressive medium. However, a visit to the Picasso Museum in Paris a few years ago rekindled a desire to make images in more traditional media. She started working on a much larger scale making a nine piece print based on Picasso’s “Demoiselles D’Avignon”. Larger scale projects like this require more time, hence a decision to leave deaf education at Christmas 2007 to pursue art on a full time basis.
Patricia now has a studio in Sutton Bonington and exhibits with
South London Women Artists, with
Nottingham Society of Artists and with
ArtSpace Loughborough.
Artist's Statement
My work has always been influenced by the great artistic innovators of the Twentieth Century. I am particularly affected by Picasso’s depiction of women and the drawing technique of Seurat. Recent drawings however, break away from these stylistic roots, and adopt a more realistic approach, based on direct observation of the model and photographs.
Future exhibitions
| 4-11 February 2010 | Nottingham Society of Artists Affiliates Exhibition
- NSA Trust Gallery Nottingham |
| 28 April - 3 May 2010 | South London Women Artists
- Bankside Gallery London |
| 29 April - 1 May 2010 | Passions and Influences Exhibition - Artspace
- NSA Trust Gallery Nottingham |
Exhibitions
| 2009 | South London Women Artists
- Dulwich Library, London |
| 2009 | Nottingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition
- NSA Trust Gallery Nottingham |
| 2009 | Nottingham Society of Artists Contemporary Exhibition
- NSA Trust Gallery Nottingham |
| 2009 | 148th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists
- Mall Galleries London |
| 2009 | Make Space for ArtSpace
- NSA Trust Gallery Nottingham |
| 2009 | Celebrating Women Artists - South London Women Artists
- Dulwich Library London |
| 2008 | 147th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists
- Mall Galleries London |
| 2008 | Works on paper
- Open House Dulwich Festival London |
| 2008 | Art Space, The Bigger Picture
- Charnwood Museum Loughborough |
| 2008 | Open 6
- Catmose Gallery Oakham |
| 2008 | Derby City Open Exhibition
- Derby City Museum and Art Gallery |
| 2007 | Bolton Open Art Exhibition
- Bolton Art Gallery |
| 1997-2002 | Mixed exhibitions
- The Gallery, Manchester’s Art House, Portland St. |
| 1984 | Solo show
- Salamander Gallery, Bolton |
| 1981-1983 | Mixed exhibitions
- Colin Jellicoe, Portland Street, Manchester |
| 1974-1975 | Mixed exhibitions
- Lantern Gallery, Worsley, Greater Manchester |
| 1974 | Solo show
- Portico Library Gallery, Charlotte St., Manchester |
| 1972-1973 | Mixed exhibitions
- Portland Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester |
