Patricia Louise Corbett, Artist

“As a Plein Air landscape oil painter, it is with great joy that each day I can discover compositions in my own surroundings.  I am driven to capture the natural landscapes that surround me, whether the dead of winter in New England or the western scenes where I was born and lived the first 37 years of my life.  It is such a thrill to see a scene come alive when I apply paint to canvas.  I will continue to refine my craft in order to express more
effortlessly and with greater abandon what my heart and soul speak.”

Patricia who sells her art mainly on the east coast has become known and appreciated for her mixture of the French and Californian impressionistic style. Her early life as a touring concert artist gave her the opportunity to view the works of the early masters throughout the world.



From an early age, Patricia was recognized and singled out for her artwork. Her mother, Sarah was her inspiration and she attributes her love of art to the woman who raised her. “Often, Mama would sit down on the floor with all of us and draw the human body, horses and trees and landscapes,” she says. Her mother’s own dream to be a fashion designer never materialized, but as Sarah’s children grew older, she did return to art in the oil painting medium of early western scenes and portraits.  Five of Patricia’s siblings work in different mediums such as pastels, ceramics, metal works and landscape oil painting. 

Patricia has attended life drawing and landscape classes at the Lyme Art Association, the Scottsdale Art School in Arizona and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.  In the fall of 2008 Patricia gave a solo presentation of her seascapes and landscapes at the La Playa San Juan Puerto Rico Artists Show. 

Patricia has been the recipient of several statewide awards in New Jersey where she lived for 25 years before moving to Wallingford, CT.  When Patricia moved to Wallingford in 2005, she joined the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society (CPAPS) organization which gave her the opportunity to become involved in several other art organizations. Patricia enjoys meeting other artists in the Connecticut area and sharing the process of expressing life on canvas.



Patricia is a member of the Lyme Art Association, the Oil Painters of America, Essex Art Association, Clinton Art Society and the Madison Art  Society.  She has exhibited in Hunthil Gallery in New Milford, CT; Art in the Hallway in New Haven, CT; Zoe and Floyd Gallery in Seymour, CT and several shows by well-known art organizations. 

Patricia Corbett was born and educated in Los Angeles, California, She is the eldest of 13 siblings, has three daughters and four grandchildren.  Although it was her early life’s dream to be an artist, it was the art of singing that became her life’s work. Strangely, it was her art teacher in college who was instrumental in steering her to music by introducing Patricia to Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” which he played for his students in order to inspire them to “go out and draw.”  Little did he know that Patricia would go out and sing professionally for the next 40 years with performances in concert, opera and television.  Patricia has two recordings, including, “Selections from Mozart,” “Favorite Operatic Songs” and “Broadway Songs.” She made her Broadway debut in 2002 in Baz Luhrmann’s version of “La Boheme" along with several other recordings. 

While Patricia toured the globe singing, she visited the museums of Athens, Florence, Rome, Prague, Munich, Paris, the British Isles and Asia.  She knew in her heart that some day she would come back to drawing and painting.

The transition from the world of music to art was facilitated by many of her siblings who were already painting. In 1998, she decided to return to her childhood love.  She began by studying with Julie Gale in New Jersey. In 2005 when Patricia decided to make several trips to the San Francisco Bay area to paint with her brother, Ray Carpenter, a whole new world opened up. Ray shared several artists’ books with her and taught Patricia about composition, color and many artistic principles.  He also told her how fortunate she was to be living in Connecticut, a Mecca for art.  Mr. Carpenter is renowned for his landscape paintings which are presently being exhibited in several prestigious galleries on the west coast, one being the Carmel Masterworks Gallery.

Creating art with her siblings is not new to Patricia. As a young girl, she spent hours in her backyard drawing with her brother, Michael Carpenter, who has had a very successful career early on as a commercial artist and now as a landscape artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Both of her brothers’ scapes depict the rugged western terrain, however, Patricia, who lives in Connecticut has found her calling with the New England scenes with their many lakes and lush multi-colored landscapes, and of course, the winter scenes.

“Patricia’s many full years of singing actually today contribute to her great sensitivity to the beauty around us.  Then it was auditive, now it is visual, but the auditive years gave her inexplicable insights into the visual.  People, for example, who are blind, and are suddenly given their sight, are much more insightful about what they behold, as their former basis on sound prepared them for horizons most of us just don't get.”

 - Charlie Carpenter