Patrick Korch, a resident of San Diego, CA was born in Sweden and has traveled throughout the world.
He attended UCLA, has a BA from SDSU, and has also studied at the Arts Students League of New York.
Additionally, he has been juried into:

	Giclee's of numerous of his works are distributed and sold widely
	Various one man shows at Lisa & Co. 1998-2006
	Group Showing at Montecito Gallery 2000-2006
	Commissioned by Bank of America to paint Laguna artworks for their corporate office
	Juried into the Richard Schmid Art Auction 2006
	Commissioned by San Diego Convention Center for various local scene paintings of San Diego 2005-2006
	Commissioned by Ty Warner CEO of "Ty" Beanie Baby to paint 12 scenes of his recently acquired San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito CA
	Commissioned by San Diego Convention Center to paint Torrey Pines Golf Course for the Buick International 2006
	Alburquerque Museum 2000-2005
	Peppertree Invitational 2005, 2006, 2007
	Published in Southwest Art Magazine OPA May 2004
	Oil Painters of America National Competition
	Masters of International Fine Art
	Arts for the Parks where he qualified for the "Top 50"
	The Sears Invitational Art Show in Eccles Art Gallery at Dixie State College 2005, 2006, 2007
	Florida National Competition
	Exclusive invitation to the San Juan Capistrano show "Our Land, Our People, Our Mission" September 12 through October 6, 2004
	San Juan Capistrano Mission "Paint Out Invitational" July 2005
	La Quinta Art Festival November 2004

He is an artist deeply committed to the classical traditions of landscape and figurative painting.
His landscape influences include such masters of the early California era as Edgar Payne,
William Wendt and Guy Rose. He has studied with contemporary landscape masters MacPhearson, Oberg, Budicin, Smith and Whitcomb. His figurative works are influenced by such classic masters as, Delacroix, Velazques, Sorrolla and Sargent. He has studied with and been influenced
by contemporary figurative masters Nelson Shanks, Daniel Green, Richard Schmidt
and Sebastian Capella (appointed artist to the Royal Court of Spain).

Patrick's award winning work has been published by Harper and Row and others.
His works are in numerous private and corporate collections. He is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, California Art Club and Oil Painters of America.

His figurative and portrait works are painted mostly from life. He intermingles the use of photographs when necessary due to client's time constraints. When not painting models he is, more often than not, on the road seeking out the most dynamic natural locations to set up his easel and paint "en plein air". For it is working directly from nature and live models that he captures and transforms the subtleties of mood, light and atmosphere that transport the viewer most intimately to the scene.