Description

Patricia Acker is a retired healthcare Social Worker with experience in long term care, adult daycare, home health care, and sixteen years of hospice care. 

Pat loves art but was not formally trained. She uses art to help her stay grounded, and to find her peaceful center as she gets lost in the process of creating. She has created many portraits, including animals. 

She is a published author including a book of short stories, “The Dying Teach Us How to Live” which includes paintings portraits of her patients, and “God Winks: Stepping Stones in the Storms of Life” with short stories, original combinations artwork, and her poem to enhance the narrative. She has started writing her third book and has completed artwork that will be an integral part of this written collection of short stories. 

Pat’s artwork is comprised of many types of media including oil, acrylic, duct tape, charcoal, ink, pencil, pastel, metallic, craft items, and crayon and she creates in various sizes of both 2D and 3D offerings. More information about her art can be found on her website at illuminangels.com