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I am an artist practicing in a multitude of different medias:

Oil painting
Aquarelles
Collage with photography
Ceramics
Sculpture
I create small-scale shrines and churches (with built in lights and furniture)
I make tables out of doors and old windows (usually very Eastern looking)
I rehabilitate old lamps, from flea markets (sometimes they're quite funky)
I am an avid gardener and live happily and quietly in Provence, France.

A brief biography

I was born and grew up in Sri Lanka - then headed for boarding school in England (at age eight....) but kept returning as much as I possibly could. I mention this so that you can understand my love for colour and everything Eastern. My heart is still in Sri Lanka and always will be.

I am very lucky to be able to accompany my husband Martin on some of his frequent travels, so I have been able to see a lot of our world. China, in particular, fascinates me.

My pictures try to impart the importance of all art, including the use of flora and fauna, and some of the meaning of it all in Chinese or Indian culture - I suppose from a Western point of view. I am in such joy when a picture turns out the way I wanted, I feel like I've said something to other people about what it's like to see whole cultures just so integrated in everything around them.

EXHIBITIONS AND GALLERY

1968
WHICKER GUILD, L.A. HAND-PAINTED FURNITURE AND PAINTINGS

1988
VENICE ARTWALK - PAINTINGS AND HAND-MADE FURNITURE. L.A.

1988
LOS MISSIONES GALLERY - POTTERY, WALL SCULPTURES. BEVERLEY HILLS L.A.

1988
HOUSETECH - WALL SCULPTURES. L.A.

1988/9
BOWEN AND KERR. SAN DIEGO. CA

1988/9
WILD, WILD WEST GALLERY. SUN VALLEY IDAHO

1988/9
CONTEMPORARY IMAGES GALLERY, SCULPTURE. NEW YORK

1988/9
THE WHICKER GUILD. POTTERY AND TILES, L.A.

1989
TRAPEZOID GALLERY. PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE. L.A.

1989
SANTA FE INTERIORS. PAINTINGS. HAND PAINTED FURNITURE L.A

1989
ARTCESSORIES. JEWELLERY AND PAINTINGS. L.A

1989
ZZYZX GALLERY. POTTERY. RUG SCULPTURES. LOS OLIVOS. CA

1990
UNIVERSAL PICTURES. POTTERY AND PAINTINGS FOR 'COLOMBO ' T.V. SERIES. L.A

1990/92
RITUALS GALLERY. POTTERY, WALL-SCULPTURES. L.A.

1990/94
GALLERIE HOPKINS. SCULPTURES. GENEVA SWITZERLAND

1993
PRIVATE HOUSE. TILE MURAL. 8X8FT. GENEVA SWITZERLAND

1993
PATTI MARCUS POTTERY STUDIO. GROUP SHOW. SCULPTURE. L.A.

1994
VENICE ARTWALK. PAINTINGS. POTTERY AND SCULPTURE. L.A.

1994
WHICKER GUILD. WALL SCULPTURES. PAINTINGS. L.A.

1994
NEW CANYON GALLERY SHOW. SCULPTURES. PAINTING. L.A.

2002
CHURCH. SHRINE/BOXES. ARLES FRANCE

2004
LA HALLE. WATERCOLOR/COLLAGE. FONTVIEILLE. FRANCE

2006
STREET SHOW. WATERCOLOUR//COLLAGE. FONTVIEILLE. FRANCE

MUSEUMS

1988
L.A. MUSEUM OF ART. GROUP SHOW. ART RENTAL AND SALES GALLERY

MAGAZINES

1987
HERALD EXAMINER NEWSPAPER. POTTERY AND SCULPTURE

1987
L.A. WEST MAGAZINE. POTTERY. SCULPTURE AND HAND-PAINTED FURNITURE

1988
ROBINSON'S STORE CATALOGUE. DECEMBER. HAND-PAINTED FURNITURE. POTTERY AND SCULPTURE

1994
ART SCENE. SCULPTURE. POTTERY AND PAINTINGS

1998
ART SCENE. SCULPTURE. POTTERY AND PAINTINGS