PATRICIA V. ARTS

BIOGRAPHY

MIXED-MEDIA ARTIST EMBROIDERER
WELDER

My name is Patricia VIOLES. I’m a mixed-media artist, French native, became American and I have lived on the beautiful Emerald coast of Florida near Pensacola since 2020.

I work in two mediums—steel welding and Haute Couture embroidery.

My art is an expression of the strength and beauty of nature.
The duality of raw metal (masculine, requiring brute strength) and art embroidery (femininity, requiring finesse) perfectly encapsulates my own nature.

Thus, I became a mixed-media welder/embroiderer, merging metal and thread, and many other materials, into a unique art.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless’’.
J.-J. Rousseau

08Jun17

First Welding Session

Under the tutelage of Eric Douglass, I strike my first arc! A rudimentary sculpture of a daisy.

24Jul17

first significant sculpture of a butterfly

Materials obtained from a scrap metal yard in Haguenau France!

14Aug18

Torso sculpture from steel washers

What would become my first mixed-media creation.

01Oct21

enrollment in studio eyral for haute couture embroidery

discovery of application of the Luneville technique.

06Jul23

receipt of the national diploma for art embroidery

Testing in Luneville France.

09Jan26

acceptance into the quayside art gallery

Displaying and selling my creations in the Pensacola Historic District