Welcome! I’m Alice Patterson, a mixed-media and oil painter based in the Missouri Ozarks. My work is bold and layered—created to celebrate the strength of women and the power of owning the strength inside you.

I’ve always been an artist at heart. As a little girl, I sat beside my mother while she recorded church meetings in her ledger, filling my own “record book” with drawings because I couldn’t yet write. Art was always my language, but I chose a more “practical” path and became a nurse. Everything shifted when I became a mother. I wanted my children to see what it looks like to follow your dreams and to live with courage and joy. That realization led me to the Milan Art Institute—one of the best decisions of my life—and into a career as a professional fine artist.

Today my paintings explore the stories and resilience of women. I layer collage, expressive mark-making, acrylics, and finally luminous oil glazes. Some layers are careful and slow, others free and untamed—a visual metaphor for womanhood itself. Many pieces carry their own written story as well, because writing is my other creative joy.

For years I felt small and voiceless, even while a quiet rebel spirit burned inside me. Painting has become my way of taking up space—boldly and unapologetically—and I want my art to invite others to do the same: to discover the light and power that have always been within them.

Outside the studio, I’m a wife and mother of two. My family is the center of my heart, and my hope is that by living true to my calling, I’m showing my children how to pursue life with joy, passion, and courage.