For Pat Goslee, painting is a way to deal with the chaos of the world; an act that lies between a noun and a verb; a silent form of communication. It is an arena of dreams with the power to create alternatives to the destructive currents of public discourse.

These paintings are visual barometers, registering what might be called evolutionary entropy where lush layers of patterns speak to nature and the effects of global warming. Bits of figurative elements can often be seen that are falling apart while attempting to reorganize. In this chaotic time of death, grief and change, she paints topographies inhabited in our energetic bodies.

Her painting helped to illustrate antimicrobial resistance on the cover of the April 2018 CDC journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases (PDF download), and her painting, Enclave, was recently installed at the US Embassy in Lusaka as part of the Art in Embassies program.

Her work is included in the prominent collections of US embassies, the District of Columbia Art Bank, the District of Columbia Wilson Building Art Collection, NIH, Children’s National Medical Center, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and the University of Georgia as well as numerous private collections.

She has been awarded several Visual Artist Fellowship grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.