Patricia Moran

Patricia Moran (25 September 1944 – 17 July 2017), was an Australian Realist Artist. During her lifetime she taught Painting, Authored books, wrote magazine articles and produced videos illustrating her own technique. Her speciality was to paint floral works in oils.[1]

Patricia Moran
Born(1944-09-25)25 September 1944
Victoria, Australia
Died17 July 2017(2017-07-17) (aged 72)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting

She won the Alice Bale Overseas study scholarship and the Yorick club art prize in 1982[2] and gave workshops for the Victorian Artists Society. Patricia won many Awards and Art prizes during her career.

Biography

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, and initially working as a Secretary, she eventually followed her desire to study painting full-time in 1977 and held her first solo exhibition in 1978. After winning numerous awards including the Alice Bale Overseas Study Award in 1982 and two Camberwell Rotary Gold medals, she tutored in portraiture at the Victorian Artists Society in the 1980s. Her passion to teach and encourage beginner artists led her to write instructive magazine articles for Artist magazines. These were followed by her first book “Painting The Beauty Of Flowers With Oils" which was published in 1991 and sold worldwide[3] and used as a textbook in several Art Colleges. In 2000, she authored the book “The Oil Painter's Ultimate Flower & Portrait Companion”.[4] Selected paintings of Patricia's were produced into prints and sold through Felix Rosensteil's Widow & Son Ltd, London. Her paintings have been featured in Decor magazines most recently Vogue Living (2016). More recently she produced a set of teaching DVDs 'Learn Classic Oil Painting with Patricia Moran'.

Patricia exhibited regularly in Australia and also in London and as well as being represented in many private collections, her work has been acquired by academic and civic institutions. Her early work covered landscapes, portraits and still life, but her speciality was painting flowers in oils.

Patricia Moran died 17 July 2017 after a short illness.[5]

References
  1. Geoff Gaylard (1990). Australian Impressionist & Realist Artists: 210 Works by 70 Living Australian Artists. Graphic Management Services. ISBN 978-0-949318-05-3.
  2. Alan McCulloch (1994). The Encyclopedia of Australian Art. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1688-9.
  3. Pat Moran (1991). Painting the Beauty of Flowers with Oils. North Light Books. ISBN 978-0-89134-382-0.
  4. Patricia Moran (2000). The Oil Painter's Ultimate Flower & Portrait Companion. International Artist Publishing, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-929834-03-7.
  5. "Patricia Moran Obituary". www.legacy.com.
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