Patricia Tobacco Forrester was born in Masschusetts, 1940 and studied at Smith university and Yale University(M.F.A.)moved to Washington D.C. via San Froncisco in 1981. Her credentials indicate a distinguished professional life. Her works in major collections from the British Museum and Duke University to the White House. Her work was on exhibit in the company of notables such as Henri Matisse, Gerogia O'Keeffe, and Andy Warhol in "Twentieth Century Flower Paintings", an exhibition appeared at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale

Forrester's works are large in scale (up to fifteen-foot expanses of seamed paper), even as they depict a tight, close-up view. Moreover, her colors come not from nature's greens and browns but from a palette cast by prismatic light and shadow.The artist admits she takes a certain pleasure in denying expectations: "I like the idea of pushing landscapes out of the Sunday painter context. It's a delight to blow up cliche roses to ten times their actual size." She also ignores traditional perspective, often tilting a distant horizon to obliterate sky. Never does she include human figures because "the plant forms themselves have personalities."
Without consciously intending to, she creates effects that border on the surreal.

"Ideally," says Forrester, "I'd find a compete scene I could use, but that rarely happens." Instead, she adapts the formal elements as she goes along, inserting a Florida eucalyptus at Virginia's Great Falls or appending a flower where it would never bloom. After all, she claims, each work is " a landscape of my mind." And like all serious artists of this genre. She pursues something beyond the observable landscape. " I stare at grees and plants and they become overlaid with psychological events. The painting is not the relating of a scene, but an expression of my intense response to nature."