Pat Olchefski-Winston...
...began her artistic career 20 plus years ago as an oil painter. Her work evolved to watercolors, acrylics, inks and collage as she developed in her craft.

Pat grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota but moved to the Southwest in the late 70's. Each painting she does has little to do with the result but a great deal to do with expressing feeling and content. Her splashy and colorful style results from her intimate relationship with nature, animals and spirit. Paintings vary from realism to the abstract and everything in between.

Collections of her work are throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.

Listen to Pat being interviewed on KTEP 88.5 NPR (RealAudio).

Read the recent article in the El Paso Times... (PDF)