Patricia Branstead
Patricia Branstead received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in printmaking where she was also working at Crown Point Press as an apprentice and became a Master Printer. She then moved to NYC and started her own studio, Aeropress, working with many well known artists. Her reputation grew and she continued for the next 17 years. Then moving to Steamboat Springs, Colorado she helped found another studio, Riverhouse Editions as Director and Master Printer. She later moved to Denver and recently to Los Angeles where she is happily living at the Brewery.
At a certain point many years ago, she knew it was time to stop and begin a new chapter doing her own art. This has taken her in many directions, from photography, papermaking, painting on paper and then to monotype printing on Asian papers. Her interest has alway been about light and transparency; patterns and reflections of nature.
As her work evolved she began to realize that she was searching for a way to express the underlying depth of thought and spiritually as we find it in everyplace we look. A key to getting beneath the surface of life. Watching as life flows and reveals itself to us subtly like a whisper or a current trying to give us all the information we want if we will sit and pay attention, by letting it rise like a koan. Her patterns become waves, and reflections. Some soft and others more robust expressions.
Her work takes the form of light by creating lamps, wall painting and hangings on Asian paper. She has shown this work in many places in Colorado and New York and plans to continue here in California.