About Patience Foster
After a degree course in Fine Art at Brighton and a postgraduate year in sculpture Patience taught art and art history at schools and colleges in London for 10 years, including 2 years as the resident Tutor in Art at an experimental Home Office therapy centre. Time spent in France provided the inspiration for a series of large pastel drawings of mountain landscapes in the Alpes Maritimes.
Patience returned to England to live in Norfolk in 1982 and has published several books on painting and drawing. The inspiration for her Norfolk work is drawn from the coastline - the sea defences, beach debris, salt marsh pools and gullies - the transient moods and images where land and water meet. Patience's costal work has been a prizewinner on several occasions in Eastern Open, Laing and other national competitions. She is a regular exhibitor in the North Norfolk Exhibition Project at Salthouse and her work is in private collections in France, England and the United States. One of her last series of pastel works, 'Umber Gulley', was selected and hung as part of a recent Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Patience has been a frequent contributor to the North Norfolk Exhibition Project at Salthouse Church. In May 2009 she held a solo show at Salthouse entitled 'Drawing the Line' which drew on her father’s experiences in the Great War and her observations of the constant battle between sea and shore along the north coast of Norfolk. |