Bundle by Pat Smith ink on torn pierced Arches cold-press paper, 9 x 9 x .5 inches, 17 x 17 x .5 inches framed. Valued at $1,250.

Pat Smith left her native city of Manchester, England, for Paris in the early sixties. She found her way to the Greek archaeological site of Knossos at the age of twenty and it was there that she fell in love with the art of pottery and began what would become a life-long journey into the arts. She was later introduced to her true material, porcelain, by a fellow artist and collaborator and together they explored the many possibilities of the material, including slip-casting with liquid clay and hand building delicate and ephemeral pieces which emphasized the inherent beauty of the pure white porcelain.

​Pat relocated from Paris to Soho, New York, in the early eighties. She began producing delicate hand-built forms made by overlapping paper-thin strips of porcelain to form open woven forms. She also began experimenting with new materials and techniques, such as watercolor and cyanotype and her porcelain work began to incorporate the expressiveness of these other mediums.

The Smiths moved to Old Lyme Connecticut in the late nineties where she established a studio, in addition to spending several months of the year in Paris.