Pat Niemira
Patricia is an artist/printmaker who particularly enjoys the expressive quality which can be obtained through the use of printing inks and techniques. She uses etching, drypoint monoprint and collagraph techniques to explore landscape, flowers and still life studies. The diversity of techniques employed allows an impressionistic portrayal of a transient world. Her subjects are found in her personal world of home and garden, or may be captured as fleeting images observed as she travels from place to place. Subjects are often committed to memory or recorded by thumbnail sketches to be re-worked later to represent the mood or feeling evoked by the initial observation. She has exhibited widely in the North-West and has received a number of awards and commendations for her collagraph prints. In 2002, she was elected a member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2004 she was awarded the John White Small Print Award at the Manchester Academy Open Exhibition. Since 2001 her work has received wider appreciation, following her exhibitions in France and Germany. She now divides her time between Manchester and the South of France, where she has her main studio. The collagraph , drypoint and monoprints are produced as one-off images or in very limited editions, generally from 1 to 5 images in most editions. Each print is individually inked by the artist and no two coloured prints are ever exactly the same. Even the black and white prints can vary, as the artist mixes her own blacks and these can differ according to the mix used.