Barton's Creek Collection

Pat Kolesar, Artist

Pat Kolesar's whimsical style has been sought after by many well known personalities.  Her collectors feel she brings laughter into their lives.  She is one Artist everyone always remembers.  You will remember her characters that tickle your funny bone, her gregarious personality, and let's not forget her fuchsia hair.

Pat has been sculpting since was was a toddler.  Her mother tells stories of Pat sitting in her high chair sculpting mashed potatoes and other foods.  To Pat, life is art and art is life.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Pat won her first sculpting contest at age 15 and has continued to win many awards through the years.  Pat loves designing her own clothes.  She hand paints silk and other materials, designs the patterns, and does the sewing.  Scarlet O'Hara wasn't the only woman to make a dress from draperies.  Pat recalls needing a dress for a high school dance and making one from her mom's old drapers. 

She enjoys the support of her loving husband of 38 years.  He often tells her she is full of surprises and he never can guess what she might do in the next five minutes.  Pat's answer:  " I never know what I might do in the next five minutes either."

Pat built a Victorian cottage for her design studio on the lawn of her historical home site in Jamestown, Ohio.  She sculpts in a waterbed to get fluid motion on her work.  Pat's life has continued to be enriched by the many friends she has made and the laughter she has shared with her collectors.