Patrick Maloney Art for Sale and Sold Prices

Biography

I have worked in the Arts my whole life, first as an illustrator then after 20 years I started painting and teaching drawing and painting. I am now 75 and use acrylics for painting and ball point pen for drawing. I am influenced by Tribal Art. In my teaching I have worked with Youth at Risk and inmates at San Quentin State Prison for 25 years. The making of art is a great pleasure and I am fortunate to have a life devoted to it.


Patrick is a gifted visual artist and teacher that has enjoyed a successful and varied career in graphics and fine arts, devoting a good portion of his life giving back to the community. Whipper Snapper owner Debra Higgins met Patrick through their work with the Marin Arts Council, she as their marketing & fundraising consultant, and he as an artist-teacher working with at-risk teenagers in the county court school and Juvenile Hall. Patrick has also worked for over 25 years at San Quentin State Prison for the California Arts in Corrections Program teaching drawing and painting to inmates from the general population and on death row.

Patrick was an integral part of the conception and design of Whipper Snapper Restaurant, working with Debra & Bill Higgins and designer Leslie Burns to create an ambiance of vibrancy and warmth, and then filling it with his gifts of art. Everything you see from the metal sculpture light sconces to the wrapped ladies to the magnificent whipper snapper and the princess painting, are the manifestation Patrick's whimsical genius. Almost all are made from recycled or found materials, and the two large wood sculptures are examples of the collaborative art that he's done with teens.

Patrick says, "There are so many things around us, cast off or unused items from our homes or even our trash, as well as from nature itself that we can take and use to create something else. This is why I like to work with recycled or found materials: primarily to show that the imagination is the most important thing, not just having so called proper artists' materials. There are endless possibilities around us. I take great pleasure in creating something beautiful from whatever may be at hand."