Patricia J. Machmiller combines the arts of brush painting, printmaking, and poetry. Her work in the visual arts started in 1996 when she began exploring watercolor as a means to augment her haiku writing. At first blush these media, print-making and brush painting, might seems very far apart, but their relationship to writing is at the heart of their appeal. A published poet, she has been writing since 1975.
Her interest in the natural world and the environment finds expression in both her writing and her art-making. Art is the means by which she explores the interconnectedness of the natural and the human world.
She has been privileged to study with these outstanding artists and writers:
Member of the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, and Gallery 9. She is the author the haiku book, Blush of Winter Moon, and is one of the translators, with Fay Aoyagi, of Kiyoko’s Sky, the Haiku of Kiyoko Tokutomi.
She is a member of the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, and Gallery 9. She is the author the haiku book, Blush of Winter Moon, and is one of the translators, with Fay Aoyagi, of Kiyoko’s Sky, the Haiku of Kiyoko Tokutomi. With Tei Matsushita Scott she translated Autumn Loneliness: The Letters of Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi, July-December, 1967.
