Patricia Duncan Fine Art Studio & Gallery
Luck, WI
Patricia Duncan is a representational pastel and oil painter. Growing up on the prairies of South Dakota, her interest for drawing and painting was sparked from a very early age. Currently living part of her time in the beautiful St. Croix Valley of Northwest Wisconsin and surrounded by lakes and the Wisconsin farmland, this place continues to nurture her love for the outdoors and is a continual source of inspiration.
With the opportunity to live abroad in London, England and her extensive travel to various parts of the world, these opportunities have provided many subjects to draw from for inspiration. She is particularly drawn to cultural diversity when picking her subject matter. She prefers painting plein air landscape scenes, figures, architecture and still life.
With Patricia’s interest in art since childhood, to further her education in the arts, she pursued a fine arts degree at the University of Utah in the performing arts ballet division and this gave her opportunities to audition and perform with Ballet West.Through these experiences, her passion and desire to continue to develop her artistic endeavors grew stronger. After raising five children her life long dream is being realized to pursue her painting.
Her art training background started with a solid drawing foundation in charcoal and pastel with instructors at the Edina Art Center in Minnesota. To further her art education, she studied under Joseph Paquet (Plein Air Painters of America) in St. Paul for 12 years and with Jeff Hurinenko for 7 years learning the Old Master’s Danish/Flemish method of oil painting through still life and portrait work. All of these classes involved the experience of “working from life” and plein air (French term of painting outside on location). She still works mostly from life as she enjoys the challenges that come from the experience. One must work quickly outside as the light changes very rapidly, so the approach of working to freeze the light effect and then mass in the bigger shapes allows for finishing a painting in a window of time of 2 –3 hours.
Over the years, she has had many opportunities to be juried into shows, exhibits and plein air events. She continues to offer oil and pastel painting classes at the family cabin in Northwest Wisconsin on Bone Lake. She offers workshops and artist retreats at her working studio on Bone Lake in Wisconsin.
In addition to her art training, she has broadened her experiences to include very extensive training in Adlerian psychology. With the closely linked psychology and art, she has found a place in her teaching to incorporate these beautiful and unique qualities. As an example:
Grief and Healing Through Artand Movement Towards Wellness
This unique workshop will foster an experience of self discovery, a listening to one’s inner voice, and potential healing. She works off her life changing experience of losing her daughter, Abbey, 10 years ago. She combines her grief and loss with Adlerian understanding of our human holism and combines artistic expressionand movement towards Wellness. She has a strong desire to empower participants to claim and use the energy embedded in their fear, anxiety and grief. Patricia believes in and acts on Adler’s belief that “inside of each person is a creative force that is identical with the Life Force”. This workshop encourages the use of each person’s “creative force”.
Through the use of color, contrast, and form, participants will experience their own life story as a source of potential joy and peace. Our humanspirit is expressed when the “tools of art” and our “creative force” are combined and used. Then our longing for wholeness and peace are freed.
For further information and to inquire about classes and workshops/retreats, please contact her at:
Email: mary.patricia.duncan@gmail.com
