Patricia Schappler is an awarded East Coast, American painter and draftsman living in Bedford, New Hampshire. She creates psychologically complex figurative oil paintings, along with graphite and mixed media drawings. Influenced by Baroque attention to light and form, and Eastern love of pattern, Schappler focuses on the human condition with themes of adolescence, motherhood, and the intimacy of partnerships. Through literary nods to biblical, mythical, and personal story, she offers the portrait as an invitation to connected experience.

Exhibiting nationally, she is an active member of several societies including the Portrait and Pastel Societies of America, The Pastel Society of New Hampshire, PoetsArtists, the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, and New Hampshire Art Association. Her work is included in the Lunar Codex Project, the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Southern New Hampshire University, Winchester Hospital, St. Anselm’s College, and is in both international and national, private collections. Schappler is published in many journals including Manifest’s INDA and INPA, PoetsArtists, Artist Magazine, Pastel Journal, The Best of Drawing, Studio Visit, New Hampshire Magazine, Strokes of Genius, American Art Collector, and Hashtag Magazines.

The mother of four, and one of twelve, Schappler’s expressive narratives focus on body language and reflect her interest in family through the rituals of home…’across the world our environments from our wall hangings, to the flooring beneath us, to the colors and patterns we wear, become our objects of hope, central to our sense of self, home, and community.’ Within her imagery, she questions how we define home, where we find it, and how we protect it with the underlying belief that home is, at its’ richest, expansive.