Pat Roberts

• “Miss Tessie”, bronze editon of 35, 18.5"x22"x6"

“From my first sculpture, it has been my goal to capture movement. I want people to look at my subjects and feel they are live, as if I had taken one frame from a video and caught them in the middle of a stride or a pose, turning bronze into living and moving objects.”

Pat Roberts grew up on the Central Coast of California in the Salinas Valley where she spent much of her childhood surrounded by horses. An accomplished horsewoman, Pat has bred, trained and shown numerous champion horses in the show ring from cutters and stock horses to halter and pleasure horses.

She has spent most of her artistic time capturing and creating the ambiance of the Old West in her sculptures of charros, buckaroos, modern-day cowboys, and even old-time Western ladies riding sidesaddle. In her studio, you will find Pat studying the fine details of the saddles and equipment she carefully depicts in her bronzes. Cattle and deer are subjects she enjoys, but horses are her first love.

“Horses and sculpture are all about movement. As an artist, I strive to capture a moment, but even when the sculpture depicts a horse or an animal standing still, it must sill move in the eye of the viewer to be alive.”

Pat has exhibited her sculptures in Köln, Germany, as the sole artist to represent the U.S. three times. She was part of the first exhibit at the opening of the European Museum of Art in Clarence, New York; has exhibited at the Osborne Gallery in London, England; the Women First show in Los Olivos, California; the Cast in Bronze show in Los Olivos; the Cattlemen’s Art Show in San Luis Obispo, California; the Women Artists of the West Show, Visalia, California; The Golden State Sculpture Show in Agoura, California; and the Peppertree Art Show in Santa Ynez, California.

Pat’s sculpture is part of the permanent collection of the European Museum of Art, as well as in several corporate headquarters both in the U.S. and abroad. Pat has collectors in 13 countries throughout the world and her sculptures are among the Royal Family’s collection in England.