ARTIST STATEMENT

As a printmaker, I work in series. The themes that attract me are the edges of life...the highs and the lows; the joys and the sorrows. I call the current series Familiar Ground. It explores the concept and various meanings of the word “home.” Is our home a house, neighborhood, city, nation, planet? The prints consider the options as they interpret residential settings, cityscapes and our natural world with all of its attendant beauty and environmental threats. The images depict both scenes of contentment and peacefulness, and circumstances of psychological and natural disorder. They reflect the variations in the places of origin from which we emerged.

BIO

Patricia Shaw Lima has been passionate about printmaking since graduating from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She teaches printmaking at Abington Art Center to novice and advanced artists. In 2014, Lima established 705 WEST Printshop + Gallery, an environmentally conscious studio for experienced printmakers to create and exhibit. Website: 705WestPrintshop.com

Lima’s prints have been juried into international, national and regional shows including WorldWide Prints (Italy); International Print (CT); Art of the State (PA); Prints USA (MO); Art of Printmaking (RI); National Printmaking (NJ). Her artwork was chosen for a recent cover of Philadelphia Stories Magazine.

Prints by Lima are currently on exhibit at the U.S. Embassy in Moldova as part of the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program. Her work is currently on view in Buenos Aires, Argentina through the WorldWidePrints Project. Lima’s work is in the public collections of Springfield Art Museum, MO; Villanova University; and Free Library of Philadelphia.