Welcome to the Patricia O'Brien Collection

The Teenage Daughter	Patricia has been a regular exhibitor in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. John Russell Taylor, the art critic of the "Times" newspaper, described her large painting "The Teenage Daughter" (now in a private collection) as one of the very few "out and out discoveries".
Although there is a subtle surrealist quality to her work, we are reminded of the 15th Century painters with their purity of drawing and marvellous use of colour. It is a remarkable personal vision, portraying women in a way which some people find calm and elusive, others subtly erotic.	*The Letter*
*Summer Garden*	Patricia O'Brien's paintings have a concentrated stillness created within her own invented perspective. The women, who are the focus of her work, emanate a mystical and evocative presence.
Her paintings are represented in the celebrated Bridgeman Art Library in London, Paris and New York. They have also been used, for the covers of several books by Penelope Gilliatt and for the cover of "Scent" by Annick Le Guérer. A half page in a recent "Sunday Telegraph Review" section presented her painting "The Picnic" illustrating an extract from the best selling novel "Never Eat Your Heart Out" by Judith Moore.	*The Couturiers*
*After the Bath*	Since her first exhibition in 1978, collectors throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia have sought her work. During this time she has had eleven individual shows and taken part in more than thirty group exhibitions in England, Ireland, France, North America and Monaco.
Her painting "The Fruit Eaters" was the cornerstone of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition promotion used throughout the National Press to commemorate their 222nd Anniversary Year.	*The Fruit Eaters*