Always in the company of artists and musicians she studied the arts at Ventura College and San Francisco State: life drawing, watercolor, painting & perspective, drawing and composition, ceramics and photography.

A professional calligrapher and knowledgeable in California native plants and herbs, Patt lived on a Santa Paula lemon orchard where she worked on Views from the Weir, a book of rural photography and calligraphic poetry.

Associated with Alvarado Street artist and sculptor Harvey Khun and New York assemblagist Charles Ames, and an active environmentalist, Patt now makes her home in a remote mountain canyon in Upper Ojai, making regular visits to northern California to work with the Grass Valley Graphics Group artists and to study painting with artist E.J. Gold.

Whether traveling or retreating to her cabin home, Patt merges her life long love of art and nature with pure expression to create subtle and beautiful landscape paintings imbued with the her own unique style and lighthearted, gentle spirit.

Her paintings have been exhibited in Los Angeles, Malibu, Grass Valley, Ventura and Ojai.