Patricia received her BFA in painting from Tulane University and an MFA from Washington University.  She has shown her work throughout the United States, but had exhibited most often in her native New Orleans.  She received numerous honors and awards, such as the 1984 Artist of the Year Award by the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.  Her work is included in such public and corporate collections as The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Louisiana Governor's Collection, the Oklahoma Art Center, the Mississippi Museum, the Morris Museum, The Pan American Life Center, Caddo Management, Freeport-McMoran, and the TJM Corporation.

She was commissioned to design the anamorphic mosaic for the multi-discipline sculpture courtyard in the Hotel Intercontinental New Orleans, as well as to design the poster for the International Water Sculpture Competition for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition.  She is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who of American Women and American Artists Renown, Who’s Who of Interior Design,(Painting Section), International Edition, and Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Painting and Painters.