Patricia Howitt
Profile
- Landscapes
- Wildlife
- Horses, Dogs & Cats
- Vector Graphics
- Fantasy
- Prints – Screenprints and Etchings
- Plants
- Christian
I live on 10 acres in the Far North of New Zealand. I was born in the UK and moved to NZ via Africa in my teens. I wanted to do art, but my family insisted on a ‘proper job’, so I worked hard and went to University.
After I qualified, I practised law in government in Wellington, tramping the high country of Central NZ at weekends and holidays to keep my sanity; creating, exhibiting and selling art in my spare time. For 2 years I was Executive Officer of the NZ Deerstalkers’ Association, which cemented my affinity for the outdoors even further, and I also worked 2 years for the Commission for the Environment.
My father died prematurely from leukaemia. I gave up a good job, moved to the family property and stepped into his shoes. I’ve cared for my elderly mom for 10 years with Alzheimers till she passed away in Feb 2007. Not easy at times, but I hung in there and built up a small graphic design freelancing business on the net to keep me ‘in touch’.
See My Graphics Portfolio
In 1999 I won the Telecom Art Award for Northland, and my art featured on the Northland Phone Book for the year 2000. Now at long last I am getting on with what I’ve always wanted to do. My focus in art is the outdoors – landscape and animals. Power, simplicity and mystery are the things that move me. It’s going to be a great journey.
Peace
Patricia
My ‘Atmospherics’ Calendar:
My ‘Wild New Zealand’ Calendar:
Groups
Patricia Howitt is a member of 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture , * Painted Ladies *, Complex Simplicity of Art, "Real" Life Artwork (No Photography), * Painted Nature *, A Vector Tshirts Only Group, Acrylic Painting, Angel Wings and Heaven, Animal Fantasy & Whimsy, Art and Stories Made For Children, Cats and Dogs (1 artwork per day), Domestic and Pedigree Cats, Equine Art and Photography, Fabulous Flowers, For The Love Of Jesus , Going Green, in-between, International Superheroes of Drawing, Illustration and World Domination, New Zealand Made, Oil Painting, Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Pierre Bézier Fans | The Pen Tool, Printmakers and Printmaking, Shameless Self-Promotion, Solo Exhibition, THE DIVINE FEMININE, Wildlife and Pet Paintings and Yellow Two.
