Charleston-born artist, PATRICIA MADISON LUSK is best known for her oils and acrylics of sea island landscapes, yet her scope reaches beyond the ordinary. Her diverse body of work often includes colorful Koi fish, a slight girl leaning on a rail by the ocean, or a young snowy white egret disturbing its own reflection in the waters of the Ace Basin.  

Patricia has earned recognition as a fine artist as well as an art educator. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, and completed post-graduate work and teacher’s certification at FURMAN UNIVERSITY. She has lived in South Carolina most of her life and from 1988 until recently has been an artist-in-resident for the state of South Carolina through the S.C. ARTS COMMISSION, where she has worked with art teachers and gifted and talented students around the state.

In 1987, she served as President of the SOUTH CAROLINA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY and in 1992 served as the president of the JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY and is included in WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN ART and WHO’S WHO IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEASTERN ART.

She lived in Hilton Head for 16 years where she served as Executive Director of the STRATFORD COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS.  During that time she also owned and operated the gallery, The Silver Palm. Her work has been exhibited in museums around the United States including the SALMAGUNDI CLUB in New York and the HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM in Louisville, Kentucky. She has shown in many one-woman shows and received honors in numerous juried exhibits. Her work has sold into more than 40 of the 50 states and hangs in corporate and private collections around the country and abroad, including COCA-COLA’S private collection.  She is also currently showing at THE RED PIANO GALLERY in Hilton Head, S.C.