Pat Hogan specializes in paintings inspired by nature.  Recent works reflect her respect and love for our beautiful Berkshires, the mountains and sea coast of Maine and the vanishing islands of the Chesapeake Bay . She is passionate about watercolor and the illusions created through the transparency and luminescence of the medium. New work includes charcoal figure drawings and mixed media pieces. Her paintings are in private collections in England , Sweden , and throughout the United States .      

Also an experienced teacher, Hogan offers painting and drawing instruction for novice and experienced artists. She is a founding faculty member at IS183, previously known as Interlaken School of Art in Stockbridge, MA, where she taught for 16 years and recently served as Department Head, Drawing and Painting.  Hogan is also a faculty member with Community Access to the Arts (CATA) in Great Barrington, MA.

In addition, she teaches watercolor, drawing, and mixed media in her hometown of Great Barrington. She has also conducted classes locally at the North Street Arts Collaborative in Pittsfield and as a guest instructor at Berkshire Botanical Gardens in Stockbridge. Hogan has presented her work and technique at the Norman Rockwell Museum as part of their series titled "Artists of the Berkshires"

Hogan earned her BS in Art Education from Pennsylvania   State   University .  She has taught art in public schools and privately in Pennsylvania , Northern Virginia , and Massachusetts .  For six years she applied her creative talent in the field of advertising working as a free-lance photography stylist in New York and London . She has studied with AWS members Mary Todd Beam, Janet Walsh, Dominic DiStefano, Mel Stabin, Don Andrews, Pat Dews and Martin Ahearn; with Judi Wagner, Tony Couch, Louise Cadillac, Jim Schantz, and with Roy Spencer at Chelsea   College in London.

Hogan’s work can be seen locally at Godwin and Lundquist Fine Art in Great Barrington., MA; and at Deborah Davis Fine Arts in Hudson , NY .