Patrice Lombardi was born in Massachusetts, USA. She studied painting in Boston, Paris and Florence, Italy and attended the Graduate School of Fine Art at Villa Schifanoia, Florence.

Patrice follws in the tradition of European painting, working mainly with oil paints on canvas or wood, using twenty to thirty layers to create strong images and a richness of colour. A good part of her current work is inspired by classical sculpture, and it is these paintings that will form the vast majority of work to be shown in December. Her particular challenge is to interpret and transform the work of classical sculptors who strove to find an ideal beauty, into a personal and modern statement. Key works include Hypnos on Orange, inspired by the Greek bronze of Hypnos at the British Museum, Venus on Red inspired by a Greek sculpture in stone at the Metropolitan Museum, New York and Goddess Triptych inspired by the Greek stone head of an Amazon at the Musei Capitolini in Rome.

Over the years she has worked with Italian formal gardens, landscape, still life and object study as well as portraiture. Since 1985 she has held fifteen solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibition in London , Italy and the USA . Among her exhibitions are: Images of the Garden, Villa Schifanoia, shown both in Florence and Boston (1985), Family Portraits, Boston (1986), New England Landscapes shown on Martha's Vineyard (1987), The Gardens of Vill I Tatti, exhibited in Florence, Boston, and California (1990), Still Life Studies, London (1993) Recent Paintings, London (1998), Objects in Light, London (2000). New Paintings, London (2004) and Images from the Garden of Villa La Pietra, Florence and London (2006). Portrait commissions include: V V Veeder, QC that was exhibited as part of a portraiture show at East West Gallery, London (2001), Judge Stephen Schwebel, President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague, Holland, (1998) and Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt. Cambridge, England (1994).Since 1985

Since 2001 Lombardi has been Professor of Painting for New York University in Florence.

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