Pat wood carving in Cape Town.
Work in progress in the studio.
Pat carving marble on the Greek Island of Paros.
Pat with the head of the Gentle Giant in Greenwich Park.
Pat carving the large sculpture precariously balanced on boxes at the Jenkins stonemasons works in Torquay.
Over the years most of the photographs were taken by me, and I am grateful to the photographers and friends whose work has also been included.
Pat Rae
Pat has exhibited several times in the Royal Academy of Arts London Summer Exhibition.
Pat’s Garden and sculptures have been featured on TV and in magazines because of her continuing involvement with the National Garden’s Scheme. She regularly shows her garden and studio with local fellow gardeners’.
She was included in The Dulwich Notebook by Mireille Galinou and Britain's Inspirational Gardens book by Garden answers.
Her garden showcases many of her unique sculptures and she has herself produced two books of photographs of her sculptures.
From May 2007 to 2008 Pat was Artist in Residence at Greenwich Park and with branches of a storm-damaged Cedar of Lebanon she carved and installed the huge Gentle Giant in the Secret Wildlife garden next to the Deer Park. While there and inspired by the magnificent old Sweet chestnut trees she produced a series of prints.
Pat is happy to introduce people to the joys of working with clay, wood or stone in her old Coach House studio.
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Pat Rae studied in Bournemouth and Cape town before attending the Royal College of Art in London.
She has spent several years working in Africa and on the Greek Island of Paros in the Cyclades, before establishing her studio in an old Coach House in Forest Hill.
Pat has exhibited her sculpture in Greece, Kenya and South Africa as well as in London at the McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, the Basil Jacobs Gallery, the Marjorie Parr Gallery, the New Grafton Portrait Centre, the Hall Place Bexley, at Deans Court Wimborne,and the Horniman Museum Gardens by courtesy of the Greater London Council as well as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.
Pat’s work is in public and private collections in Canada, Greece, Italy, Spain, Israel, Kenya, South Africa, Australia, Tasmania, Bahrein, Oman, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong and the United States of America as well as the United Kingdom, at the National Portrait Gallery, The Israel Museum, The Cranfield College of Technology, The Greater London Council, and the Dorset County Council.