The Delray Beach Public Library is featuring a selection of paintings, “Then and Now”, by artist Patricia Lappin, when she lived in Arkansas and then moved to Florida. Patricia is a beloved teacher at the New Studio for Visual Arts in Jupiter. Enjoy a free Artist Talk on Friday, November 1 and meet Patricia! The exhibit is open now through December 14. To see a full array of Patricia’s artworks, stop by the Palm Beach County Convention Center on November 2-3 at Artists & Charities Hand In Hand Show and Sale. The Rickie Report shares the details and some sneak peeks.
“THEN AND NOW”
PAINTINGS BY PATRICIA LAPPIN
Delray Beach Public Library
100 W Atlantic Blvd. Delray Beach FL 33444
MEET & GREET Reception:
Friday, November 1
3 – 4:30 pm
Artist’s talk at 3:30 with refreshments
Open to the public free of charge.
Exhibit is available now through December 14, 2019

“Marsh Patterns” by Patricia Lappin
ARTISTS AND CHARITIES HAND IN HAND
Saturday & Sunday, November 2 -3, 2019
11 am – 5 pm
Palm Beach Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Blvd West Palm Beach, Florida

“Waterways Blue and Orange” by Patricia Lappin
To Patricia Lappin, every painting is an adventure! When you visit the Delray Beach Library to see her exhibit, you will understand what she means. I look at her paintings and wonder where that path in the painting may take me next! She says, ” Since moving to Florida my color palette has become brighter and more vibrant. My subject is still the natural world expressed in both abstracts and more recognizable images. However, I am taking more license with the colors and simplifying the shapes to imply and intuit instead of record an actual scene as I have been doing for the last 20 years”.
Patricia goes on to explain, “Before Florida I lived in Arkansas for 20 years, exploring the hills and waterways with Plein Air and studio work in oil. That is the THEN. NOW I am sketching and taking photos at Green Cay and the Loxahatchee Nature Preserve to inspire the new acrylic paintings. The contrast is very interesting when placed side by side. Our life circumstances and a new environment have great influence on how we see the world around us”.

“Winter Trail” by Patricia Lappin
Patricia tells The Rickie Report, ” Enjoy the beauty around you. My desire to create was very strong and drawing was my refuge, my sanctuary. It was an inner compulsion to be separate from the world sometimes. I was content to spent hours drawing leaves, branches and bugs. A school field trip to the St. Louis Art Museum opened my eyes – adults took painting and drawing seriously, what a revelation”!
From age 10 to 14, she studied painting on Saturday mornings with a high school art teacher. After high school, she attended SMS in Springfield, Mo. for 4 semesters, taking every available art course, intro to design, color, etc., but Patricia only wanted to learn to paint like the paintings she had seen at the St. Louis Art Museum and that was not happening. She met her husband, married and became a mother.

“Winter Trail” by Patricia Lappin
Patricia continues, “I was still painting, but unsure of the new “adult artist” me. We moved to Fairfield, CT. near NYC. Caesar Cirigliano became my teacher and mentor for 5 years. Working with only black, white, yellow ocher and burnt sienna for the first 3 years, he taught me portrait, landscape and still life painting. We spent many hours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC studying the masters. Working with Ceasar was the greatest education I could have. From 1970 to 1975 he led me from an insecure young adult struggling to believe in my artist-future to a confident artist in multiple mediums. As he was leaving for Florida to retire, I ask him “who would be my teacher now?” His answer formed my future. “Don’t you know? You are the teacher now. You have the foundation now.” When I began teaching I used my notes from the 5 years of study with Caesar. I still use them today”.

“Waterways in Yellow” by Patricia Lappin
Patricia opened her first studio in 1980 and began teaching and exhibiting in the tri-state area. Her family moved to Ft. Smith AR in 1996. “Since then I have been represented by galleries in Kansas City MO, Scottsdale AZ, and Van Buren AR. I have shown my work at the Ft. Smith Art Center and the Center for Art and Education many times. I teach private classes and workshops. My paintings are in many private and public collections”.
In 2016 the Lappins moved to Boca Raton FL, where Patricia joined the Plein Air Palm Beach group, exploring new scenes and making new friends, seeking out galleries and other venues for showing/selling her paintings and teaching. She is on the faculty at The New Studio for the Visual Arts in Jupiter, FL. and a member of the Palm Beach Watercolor Society. Patricia has won numerous awards for her artistry and her works can be found in private as well as public collections.
For more information about this exhibit, classes, or individual lessons:
Patricia Lappin 479-883-7386
The New Studio for Visual Arts, Jupiter, Fl. Now teaching Dynamic Color Harmony on Monday mornings from 9:30 to 12:30 through October. New class starts in November through December. Contact http://thenewstudiova.net for information.
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