Patricia Moran: life and works

Patricia Moran (25 September 1944 – 17 July 2017), was an Australian Realist Artist. During her lifetime she taught Painting, Authored books, wrote magazine articles and produced videos illustrating her own technique. Her speciality was to paint floral works in oils.

She won the Alice Bale Overseas study scholarship and the Yorick club art prize in 1982 and gave workshops for the Victorian Artists Society. Patricia won many Awards and Art prizes during her career.

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, and initially in action as a Secretary, she eventually followed her want to psychiatry painting full-time in 1977 and held her first solo exhibition in 1978. After winning numerous awards including the Alice Bale Overseas Study Award in 1982 and two Camberwell Rotary Gold medals, she tutored in portraiture at the Victorian Artists Society in the 1980s.^{[citation needed]} Her passion to tutor and incite beginner artists led her to write instructive magazine articles for Artist magazines. These were followed by her first book “Painting The Beauty Of Flowers With Oils” which was published in 1991 and sold worldwide and used as a textbook in several Art Colleges. In 2000, she authored the book “The Oil Painter’s Ultimate Flower & Portrait Companion”. Selected paintings of Patricia’s were produced into prints and sold through Felix Rosensteil’s Widow & Son Ltd, London. Her paintings have been featured in Decor magazines most recently Vogue Living (2016). More recently she produced a set of teaching DVDs ‘Learn Classic Oil Painting like Patricia Moran’.

Patricia exhibited regularly in Australia and afterward in London and as competently as visceral represented in many private collections, her appear in has been acquired by academic and civic institutions.^{[citation needed]} Her early take effect covered landscapes, portraits and nevertheless life, but her speciality was painting flowers in oils.^{[citation needed]}

Patricia Moran died 17 July 2017 after a rude illness.