Background

Isla Patterson, a well-known Canberra Artist is a multi-award winning watercolourist, specializing in portraying nature and life both in the Canberra region, the outback, wildlife, seascapes and overseas scenes. She has lived in the ACT since 1979 and over this period has developed a reputation as an artist known especially for her distinctive depictions of the local scene, and although proficient in most mediums, prefers the delicacy of watercolours.

 Isla began her art studies with Trevor Clare a highly regarded artist & Art School tutor in Adelaide and continued for a period of three years, in the USA where she studied watercolour and pastel, joined and exhibited with the International Art Society of Washington DC and held her first solo show in Virginia, where she lived.

She has worked on many commissions such as the Canberra Times Building, Jason Placemats, the International building models at Cockington Green and has paintings in collections in Australia and overseas countries. Included in these countries are Italy, UK, USA, France, Germany, Nigeria, South Africa, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.

Art Group Memberships

Isla belongs to ASOC the Artist Society of Canberra, AIM Art in Miniature & the Queanbeyan Art Society & was a Signatory member of AGRA the Realist Society of Australia.