Patricia Crotty

I love to draw and paint in nature. I use my sketches as a starting point for abstract landscapes that evoke the feeling of being in nature, where inner and outer worlds meet. As I work in layers, adding and subtracting, the piece changes day by day until it comes together as an inter-connected whole.

My hope is to create an immersive experience that evokes the search for the sublime in the everyday, and of finding transcendence in nature. This is more important than ever today, as we look for solutions toward climate sustainability.

Patricia Crotty studied painting and multimedia at the Sorbonne in Paris, earning graduate degrees in both. Her paintings and mixed-media pieces hover between figurative and abstraction. Her work has been shown in galleries in the Boston area and in New York, Amsterdam, and Paris.

2024: Sky Water, solo exhibit at Walden Pond Visitor Center Gallery, Concord, MA.
2023: FLOW: Art Inspired by Movement and Sound, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
Reflections” Listening to Nature, Umbrella Center for the Arts, Concord, MA
LOOK: Perspectives on Nature, The Old Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA, 2022
2022: Courageous Colors, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
Roddy Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA (Juried by Beth Kantrowitz of Drive-By Projects)
Abstract Connectivity, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA (Juried by Craig Bloodgood of the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA)
Annex Artists Show, Fountain Street Fine Art, Boston, MA
Members Juried II: Collage, juried by Beth Kantrowitz, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA.
2020-2021: Collective Alchemy: OIL – WATER – RUST, Beckett Arts Center, Beckett, MA
Patricia Crotty (solo exhibition), Roasted Granola Café, Arlington, MA
The World Around Us, The Arlington Center for the Arts at Workbar, 1167 Mass Ave, Arlington, MA
2019: The Forest for the Trees (solo exhibition), Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary, Belmont, MA
Where Color Lightly Treads, curated by Priska Juschka, Lichtundfire, New York, NY
Abstract Connectivity, curated by Priska Juschka, L...