Patty Rice

Patty McMahon Rice has been painting portraits on commission and teaching private drawing classes since 1994. Her work has won numerous awards and has been included in the Oatlands Plantation Calendar for several years.

Patty creates portraits and landscapes in graphite, pen and ink, pastel, watercolor, and oils. Patty really enjoys portraiture "I see God's handiwork in each face I paint."

The Washington Post selected one of Patty's recent shows in Virginia as Top Pick of the Weekend: "Rice captures people's likeness in portraiture by looking for spontaneous expressions rather than posed smiles, and different values of light and dark rather than simply capturing the subject's features."

A life-long student of art, Patty has studied most recently at The Corcoran College of Art in Washington DC, Daniel Greene Portrait Workshops in New York, and The Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a member of the Piedmont Artists League and the Portrait Society of America.

Patty and her family have resided in Fauquier County Virginia since 1984.