• Pat describes his background as "vaganondic" a word which feels at home in his collections of fantastical prose.

• A native of Los Angeles, he obtained a BFA at UCLA where he studied under the internationally respected artist Richard Diebenkorn. From there he went on to Europe where he moved in high diplomatic circles and restored an 18th century atelier in Paris, moved on to Germany with his first retrospective in 1987 at the Galerie Altana in Hamburg, and completed a show with the then Ministry of Culture in East Berlin.
As time dragged on, he drifted back and forth between Hollywood, Palm Springs, and New Orleans where he decided to plant roots and start an art complex in Bywater in 1995 which landed him on the front page of the Times Picayune.

• He is unable to pinpoint the beginnings of his compulsion to render shoes, but the obsession has resulted in his being called a visionary relative to his hundreds of drawings of bizarre shoe designs coupled with quixotic poetry in three published volumes. "It just doesn't stop" he says as he readies his fourth volume opus for publication.

1974
Bachelor of Arts UCLA.

Exhibitions:

2000
Gallerie Maeght, Paris, France.

1996
Touchstone Galleries, New Orleans.

1995-2000
• DuMonde Galleries, New Orleans.
• Materpieces, New Orleans.

1988
Mobo Art Gallery.

1987
• Ministry of Cultural Affairs, East Berlin, East Germany.
• Gallerie Atlanta, Hambury, Germany.

Commissions:

1998-2000
Ashkenazy Galleries, L'Ermitage Hotels, Beverly Hills, CA.

Publications:

2007
French Shoes, Les Souliers Francais, Volume III, AuthorHouse.

2005
• Shoe Exotica & Poems, Volume II, AuthorHouse.
• Shoe Exotica & Poems, Volume I, AuthorHouse.

1995 April
Times Picayune, New Orleans.