Patricia Mae Young traces her love for art to when she was a small child living with her grandmother. Patty loved drawing murals on her bedroom walls, and her grandmother loved what she saw!

In lower school her artistic talents were soon well known to her teachers, who put her in charge of keeping the schoolrooms beautiful, and encouraged her in many other ways. With their support she took art classes at Carnegie-Mellon University while she was still in highschool.

She knew that the life of a fine artist would be the only truely satisfying life, and that the path leading to such a life was long and difficult. She set forth by studying commercial art at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Free-lanceing for many years as an interior design illustrator, and taking fine art classes at night, she nurtured her natural talents, and strengthened her artistic spirit.

She then moved to Apple's Mill, a peaceful and quiet artist's dreamland nestled on a lake amongst the farms near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Here she devoted all of her energies to painting --- and to gardening --- becoming the fine artist she had wished to be. Her pastels and watercolors were soon well known in the area, as were her abilities to clearly teach the principles of color theory and plein-air painting, and to individually tudor emerging artists.

During this time she lived for a year in Singapore, taking Chinese Brush painting from Mr. Tan Khim Ser, an internationally renowned artist with training in both Eastern and Western art. She also lived in Mediteranean Europe, where the light and air profoundly infused her work with a dreamy ethereality. .

Patricia has recently moved to Hidden Ridge, in an excitingly creative artistic community. Located on the rural edge of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the region has metamorphed from the decaying steel town in which Patty was born and raised, into a thriving artistic and intellectual metropolis. Pittsburgh's vigorous art scene, Hidden Ridge's artistic creativity and community, and the proximity of family should multiply Patricia's artistic creativity.