Patty and her family have just moved to a new, smaller ranch, Juniper Ridge Ranch, in Terrebonne, Oregon, just 25 miles north of Bend, in Central Oregon. A new home with views of the Cascade Mountains, Smith Rock State Park, and their own private stretch of black rim rock will give Patty the opportunity for a whole new artistic adventure. Selling their ranch in North Powder will allow her the opportunity to paint full-time, and she will have access to the growing art community of Central Oregon. Watch redjunestudio.com for updates of new studio space, as well as a completely new body of paintings; landscapes?

Born in Caldwell, Idaho in 1961, Patricia was raised in a ranching and rodeo family in Eastern Oregon, graduating from high school in Pendleton, Oregon. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where she studied photography and creative writing. She emerged from college ready to explore painting as her primary creative outlet. She moved to New York City where she spent nearly five years in the East Village working to pay the rent, visiting art galleries, dancing and learning to paint.
During a visit home to Eastern Oregon in 1987, she fell in love with a potato farmer from Southern Idaho and never returned to New York - literally. Her sister packed up her few belongings and shipped them west for her. Her marriage to Gary Martin gave her the opportunity to return to western life and to pursue another passion - breeding, training and showing cutting horses.

After marrying, they moved to a working cattle ranch at the foot of the stunning Elkhorn Mountains in Northeast Oregon. Life on the ranch, with their son Miguel, allows them to pursue their passion for cutting horses; and the landscape, animals and people of the ranching and cutting horse world provide Patty with endless inspiration for her art.

Her paintings, filled with cowboy hats and boots, horses and rodeos are fresh visual interpretations of classic American and Western themes.