“Patricia Watwood is a leading figure in the contemporary figurative movement. . Her subjects are primarily women and figures, and she incorporates mythic imagery and narratives. Her work has been exhibited at the Beijing World Art Museum, The European Museum of Modern Art, The Butler Museum, and is in the collections of The St. Louis University Museum of Art, and The New Britain Museum. Her commissioned portraits hang in St. Louis City Hall, Washington University, and The Harvard Art Museums.

Watwood earned her MFA from New York Academy, and studied with Jacob Collins as a founding member of the Water Street Atelier. Watwood’s instructional DVDs include “Creating Portraits from Life,” with Streamline Art Video. She has created several online drawing courses, including “7 Days of Drawing,” with the creative streaming platform Bluprint. She has written articles for American Artist, American Arts Quarterly, and Fine Art Connoisseur magazines, and teaches painting in Brooklyn and in workshops around the country.

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