Patricia Fontaine paints the subconscious residue of a life lived widely: decades of travel, memory, and imagery distilled into contemporary abstract works in mixed media. Her art is the subconscious manifestation of this collage of memories. What first reads as color and gesture gradually resolves into something more particular, a hidden figure, an animal, a bird, a form that seems to surface from beneath the paint itself. Faces and creatures drift through imagined oceans, lakes, and forests, or hover just behind a waterfall's illusion, never fully announcing themselves.

Her paintings ask for presence rather than a quick glance. Spend time with one in a quiet, reflective moment and it starts to shift, offering up new shapes and meanings the longer you stay with it. That exchange, between what Patricia has folded into the work and what the viewer discovers there, is where the paintings come alive. In a life that has often moved fast, her art offers a rare invitation to slow down and find a little stillness.