Patricia Mullin was born and raised in East Anglia where meadows, streams, and thickets were playgrounds, and gangs of children roamed free. Drawing, reading, and writing were her rainy-day pursuits.

Patricia completed a two-year art foundation course at Colchester School of Art. She benefited from being taught by Phillip Ardizzone, (son of Edward), Richard Bawden, printmaker (also son of a famous Edward), and the historian Richard Godfrey. Later obtaining her BA in applied textiles from Central Saint Martins, she went on to work for Liberty & Co. designing the Tana Lawn/Veruna Wool dress ranges. Later her designs were sold to textile houses in the UK and internationally.  At Goldsmiths College, University of London she took an Art Specialist PGCE.

Patricia has taught in settings including Norwich Cathedral, where she ran the first creative writing course in an English Cathedral and an open art studio. She has also taught at HMP Prison Norwich, Murray Edwards College Cambridge (which holds the second largest collection of women’s art in the world (the largest being in Chicago. USA), and The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, where she specialised in creative writing inspired by the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection and special exhibitions. In 2007 Patricia completed her MA in Writing the Visual. exploring the relationship between creative and critical writing and visual culture. A course devised and directed by George Szirtes (King’s Gold Medal for Poetry and winner of the T.S. Elliot prize).

Short stories – often using visual prompts as inspiration have won places in national competition anthologies, literary magazines, and ezines.

Illustrations – have been commissioned by Women’s Journal, Taste Magazine, A’ La Carte, Elle, City Limits, Time Out, Quadrant Design Associates, Vauxhall Motors, Landell Mills Commodities, et al.

Exhibitions/galleries – The Artists Day Book, Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden –  later an Arts Council national tour. Women’s Eye at Lauderdale House London; Snape Maltings Gallery/Suffolk; Blickling Hall Gallery, Norfolk; The Brandler Gallery, Essex; The Eastern Rooms, Rye; Opposite Ends – exhibitor and curator – Norwich inaugural Open Studios. Opposite Ends and Friends, and The Hostry exhibition space, Norwich Cathedral. A Norwich Cathedral Exhibitions Committee member, Patricia was closely involved in developing the new Hostry exhibition and learning space. Recently ‘Julia Laughed as Petals Fell’ was selected for the Sir John Hurt Prize 2024 – The Holt Festival.

Patricia’s teaching – focuses on writing and art workshops linked to historic and contemporary collections, museums, gardens, and iconic buildings.

Currently – Patricia has two collections  Tales from the Table, with narrative titles hinting at conversations beyond the frame, and Folk Art, which connects images of wildlife related to the East Anglian land and seascape, with its storytelling history embedded within the culture through tales, myths, and legends. Exhibiting at Walsingham Gallery and Framing, Great Walsingham. Norfolk. Until May 30th, 2025.  https://www.walsinghamgalleryandframing.co.uk

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