About the Artist

Patti Jouppi
* Suncrest WA, (My heart lies in Juneau Alaska and Hilo Hawaii)

I believe I was born an artist and an outdoor adventurer. I spent many days as a child following my father, or being carried, through the forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It has always been within nature that I am content and it is nature that prompts the desire to create art. A sense of adventure moved me to the Pacific Northwest where my husband and I climbed the rugged peaks, and explored the depths of the ocean. My love of art moved to technical drawing as a cartographer, but to me that was just another way of expressing the natural world on paper. Soon we were off to Alaska with a new baby girl and a new adventue to be had. Alaska is the place the native artistic drive in me rose again. I started to paint wildlife in pastel and sculpt wood, often with my children at my side. After a long brake from the arts, and several moves, I now find myself with an overwhelming drive to create from nature. My love of Pacific Island, Alaskan, and Northwestern Cultures emerges from the wood and stone, and the fabric I paint on. I am learning from nature and from all those who share the artistic gift and hope to express nature the way it intends.