Every artist is self-trained. My formal art training is sketchy: a few years as a child prodigy at California School of Fine Arts, a brief period under Wayne Thiebaud at age 16, and individual studies in Europe between 1981 and 1988...

The real art training was doing kids' portrait sketches at school fairs to raise money for various schools. The kids would become bored and run away before I was finished. Forcing myself to draw speedily was the most serious training of my art career. The joy I could deliver to a proud mother with a good drawing of her child was so much more rewarding.

When the angels began sitting for their portraits, there were no end of places to exhibit, but more important, places to speak about their messages. I was directed to move to the Atlanta area and open a gallery for angel art, which was established for five years in Cumming, GA.  

In 1994, I published "and the angel said" with the first 32 images of angels and their spoken words.

You are invited to visit my at-home gallery by appointment  where you can have your Guardian Angel painted and/or view available angel portraits.

Patricia Angeline Sistrunk

patricia@andtheangelsaid.com