Pat Algar

Born in London in 1939, Pat Algar attended Wimbledon School of Art where she attained a National Diploma in Design. In 1959 Pat won a place at the Royal Academy Schools. There she was awarded prizes for landscape, life and portrait painting and life drawing, as well as winning the Silver Medal for composition. In the sixties Pat Algar moved to Cornwall and, in St Ives, in the seventies, she started to paint again. In the succeeding years she exhibited widely in the U.K. In 1994 Pat Algar went out to work in the USA and exhibited in both San Diego, California and Dallas, Texas. Two years later she returned to Cornwall to live in Marazion, where she now lives. Pat Algar works from her home overlooking St Michaels Mount and the surrounding coastline. Pat continues to exhibit and has work in many private collections, including Windsor and Newton. Pat Algar’s oil paintings are mainly concerned with interiors, although in more recent years, the ever changing views that she enjoys have inspired her to paint the sea.