Patricia Windrow
Painter
Patricia Windrow was born in London, England and educated in Paris, France. She is listed in Who's Who in American Art and The Dictionary of Contemporary Achievement.
Her work has been collected by the Minnesota Museum of Art, West Publishing's Art and the Law, The Parrish Museum in Southampton, N.Y. and the Catherine Lorillard Wolff Arts Club of New York. Numerous private collectors including Robert Redford, Vladimir Horowitz, John Cage, R. Philip Hanes have acquired her paintings. Her work has been represented by galleries in New York, Washington, D.C. and Palm Beach.
A longtime resident of Long Island before establishing her gallery in Virginia, Patricia Windrow developed and hosted a weekly educational television series called "The Cable Easel" that ran for 12 years. This pioneering series of television art instruction programs was recognized in 1988 with a coveted Cable Ace Award.
A frequently commissioned painter, Patricia Windrow has executed numerous portraits of eminent people including the Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and the late president of the Rockefeller Foundation, John Knowles.
She has created some 60 large scale indoor and outdoor murals in private homes and in public settings including banks, schools and restaurants.
Since 1991, Patricia Windrow has operated her own gallery in Front Royal, Virginia. Two of her landscapes of the Shenandoah Valley are for sale as prints at the Shenandoah National Park's Visitor's Center on the Skyline Drive.
Patricia Windrow is a realist oil painter whose enormous range encompasses portraits, landscapes, seascapes and floral paintings as well as surrealist treatments of timeless subjects, such as "Unbirth of Venus." Her paintings range in scale from miniatures (such as those in the collection of the New Jersey Miniature Art Society, some of which measure one square inch) to upwards of four feet by six feet. She paints from life and has been praised for her keenly observed depictions as well as for her subtle evocations of place and time. Her palette is varied but centered on what may be called the colorings of nature.
Patricia Windrow's remarkable series of large studies of crystals won special mention in the New York publication, Art Speak. Of her gallery show, Crystallinity, its critic wrote,
Given the richness of her imagination and virtuoso skills, one might expect Patricia Windrow to continue constructing ever more complex alternate realities. In her "Crystallinity" series, however, Windrow has returned to simpler compositions that now have all the epic elegance and uncluttered monumentality of her mature style.
Describing "Crystal with Hopi Phantom," the critic said, "Meticulously painted and strangely serene, the magical image has the classical beauty of a New Age Vermeer."
