Patricia Munson Gravett

I grew up in rural Maryland and helped in my parents’ large vegetable garden and with my mother’s August and September ‘canning frenzy’ of peaches, pears, spiced apples, etc. Perhaps because of this I came to an early love of the garden's harvest.

When my husband and I moved to the Hudson River Valley some years ago, I was again surrounded by orchards and farmland — and the fabulous light that this region is famous for. It has inspired me to capture these delights of nature on canvas. As in painting people, there can be endless variety in dealing with these forms, and I never tire of them as my subjects.

My works are influenced by the Italian and Dutch still life tradition and the Hudson River School of painting. I continue to learn from these traditions — and from nature — every day.

I received a BFA from the University of Maryland; studied with Ray Goodbred and Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students League; attended the National Academy of Design (NYC) and taught at Marymount Manhattan College. My work has been exhibited regionally and is represented in many private collections.

I live in upstate New York, between the Hudson River and the Berkshire Mountains.

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