Patty Van Dyke Creativity is the essence of our human spirit.

I believe that through art we bear witness to one another, we make the unseen seen and the invisible visible. I love watermedia for its fluidity - it has a mind of its own! Currently I'm very involved with exploring the process of Ink Resist  - on paper and on canvas. I love the extremes of values it creates and the unexpectedness of what it reveals.

Patty Van Dyke's studio is in Ojai. She is a Signature Member of the California Gold Coast Watercolor Society, which has now joined with the Buena Ventura Art Association, the Artists' Union Gallery and the Santa Barbara Art Association as well as a Registered Art Therapist with a private practice in Ventura. Her work can regularly be seen at Masserella's Firehouse Pottery and Gallery on Montgmoery St. in Ojai as well as at Made in Ojai on Matilija St.. She and Joyce Lombard, another artist/therapist, have collaborated to create Innerplay Studio which offers workshops in expressive arts, many providing CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs.