Patricia Dunbar

AS A LIFE-LONG DESIGNER, interested in typography, drawing, photography, and painting, I have been working in these areas for as long as I can remember. I have been employed for most of my life as a graphic designer (which encompasses all these interests), mostly for book publishers and have won awards for my work. On my own I have been painting, drawing, and doing extensive photography. I have paintings, prints, and photographs in private collections in California, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Texas, England, and New York.

City/country, summer/winter, colorful/little color, all interest me. It’s the design, the light, and balance that help me choose what to paint. I paint outside on site, usually smaller pieces; I also paint inside using my own photographs as subject matter. I love to travel and record images of travel in my paintings.

Forty years ago, I moved to the Boston area where I raised my daughter. eighteen summers ago I moved to Salem where I continue do to photography, drawing, graphic design and painting.