Holiday Gift, oil on canvas

Patricia Corbett is an oil painter who has exhibited mainly in Connecticut and California. She has become well known for her paintings of the Merritt Parkway landscapes, bridges, lyrical trees and more recently, figures and portraits.  using a mixture of the French and California impressionistic style.

Ms. Corbett was born the oldest of 13 children and was educated in Los Angeles, California. Her childhood dream was to become a painter like her mother, but as fortune would have it, she ended up traveling the world as a performing artist singing opera and concerts. In 2003 she retired from the stage and screen and returned to her childhood passion in art. Her advanced art study has been with nationally known artists such as Ron Rencher at Scottsdale Art Institute, workshops with Don Demers, Kathy Anderson, Sherrie McGraw, and John Massimino. Study in Italy include work with Will McCarthy and Sandra Wakeen and at the Académie de la Arte La Grande Chaumiere, Paris France.

There is a saying, she says…“One must find one’s own voice.  Expression through any art form is like reaching deep down into one’s soul and letting the feelings of life pour out. When you trust yourself enough to do that, you get what is called a standing ovation in singing!” Corbett’s paintings are currently exhibited at Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, Connecticut.