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Patricia Tunks

I am a native-born Oregonian and spent most of my life in her trees, mountains, lakes and streams, except for the few years in the sand and sea of Southern California and the snowy high-mountain desert of Utah. Oregon is my home. The world is where I visit and paint."

From the earliest age when asked what I would be when I grow up, I always said, "An Artist!!"

My favorite colors have always been red and yellow.
 

“I have been an artist all my life

I see paintings everywhere I look
I have been told my art has a thread of happiness that links one piece to another
I hope so”                                         

  ACTIVE MEMBERSHIPS

Watercolor Society of Oregon
Painter's Showcase
Lake Area Artists
The Critique Group
Color Fusion
Buffalo Grass Society
Color Wheels
Former Member, Chronicle Board,

                           Lake Oswego Foundation for the Arts
Watercolor West (associate)
Northwest Watercolor Society (associate)
 

  UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Buffalo Grass Society, July 13, 2008,
              Mountain Park Recreation Center, Lake Oswego, OR
Painter's Showcase, October 9-12, 2008, Jenkins Estate,

              8005 Grabhorn Rd. (off Farmington Rd.), Aloha, OR
 

  PAST EXHIBITIONS

Lake Area Artists Show & Sale Apr 24-27, 2008

    Lake Oswego Chamber of Commerce Blue Ribbon
 

Chinese Benevolent Society Dec 2-4, 2007
Color Fusion Show & Sale Nov 16-17, 2007
Painters Showcase Show & Sale Oct 11-14, 2007
Lake Area Artists Show & Sale Apr 26-29, 2007
Celebration of Creativity Mar 1-4, 2007

Painters Showcase Show & Sale Oct 12-15, 2006
Lake Area Artists Show & Sale May 3-7, 2006

Painters Showcase Show & Sale Oct 13-16, 2005
Lake Area Artists Show & Sale April 28-May 1, 2005
Artist’s Show & Sale on Macadam Feb 4-6, 2005

Painters Showcase Show & Sale Oct 7-10, 2004
Lake Area Artists Show & Sale April 30-May 2, 2004
    Lake Oswego Review Ribbon
Artist’s Show & Sale on Macadam Feb 5-8, 2004

West Slope Library December 2003
Cathedral Exhibit Oct 31-Nov 2, 2003
Painters Showcase Show & Sale Oct 9-12, 2003
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts June 20-22, 2003
Canby Wine & Cheese Festival May 30-June 1, 2003
Lake Area Artists Show & Sale May 1-4, 2003
    Honorable Mention Ribbon

Painters Showcase Show & Sale Oct 10-13, 2002
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts June 21-23, 2002

Painters Showcase Show & Sale Oct 11 -14, 2001
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts June 22-24, 2001
 

  STUDIES 

Judy Hoiness, Lake Oswego, OR Mar 2008
Arne Westerman, Lake Oswego, OR Feb 2008
Carol Riley, Lake Oswego, OR Nov 2007
Bill Bailey, West Linn, OR Mar 2007
Laura Ross Paul, Lake Oswego, OR Apr 2007
Lavonne Tarbox-Crone, Tualatin, OR Oct 2006
Paul Jackson, Portland, OR Sep 2006
Liza Myers, Macchu Pichu, Peru Aug 2006
Ron Ranson, Lake Oswego, OR Feb2006
Skip Lawerence, Taos, New Mexico May 2005
Christopher Schink, Taos, New Mexico May 2005
Fran Larson, Taos, New Mexico May 2005
Katherine Chang Liu, Taos, New Mexico May 2005
Alex Powers, Taos, New Mexico May 2005
Pat San Soucie, Lake Oswego, OR Jan 2005
Gene Gill, Beaverton, OR Jun 2005
Susan Greenbaum, Lake Oswego, OR May, 2004
Millie Van Sickle, Lake Oswego, OR Mar 2003
Millie Van Sickle, Beaverton, OR Jun 2003
Alvaro Castagnet, Portland, OR Sep 2002
Tom Lynch, Portland, OR Mar 2001
Jean Ye, Lake Oswego, OR Feb & Mar 2001
Ruth Armitage, Lake Oswego, OR Feb 2001
Ed Thibodeau, Portland, OR Oct 2000 - Mar 2001
Ed Thibodeau, Lake Oswego, OR Apr 2005
Dee Frank, Italy & Switzerland, 1999, 2001, 2003
Dee Frank, Paris & Provence, 2000
Dee Frank, Oregon 2001, 2003
Judy Morris, Italy & Switzerland, 1999, 2001, 2003
Judy Morris, Paris & Provence, 2000
Judy Morris, Medford, OR 1992
Jan Kunz, Bend, OR 1992, 1994
Linda Rothchild-Ollis, Beaverton, OR 1991, 1992, 1999
Lisa Wizer, Lake Oswego, OR 1992, 1993
 

Self portrait at Machu Picchu, Peru

Another self portrait - St Thomas, Virgin Islands

Painting Thun Castle on the Hill, Switzerland