Patricia Sekler
Watercolor is an unforgiving medium. Pat Sekler loves the
challenge of using materials where one's mistakes are --
unmistakable! --and, for the most part, indelible. She tries
to capture the special atmospheric effects of a moment in
time, even though those particular effects may only have
lasted a few seconds, and likes to record buildings and
lanscapes facing environmental threat.
As a member of the Cambridge Art Association, Pat has
exhibited both watercolors and photographs. Her works are in
private collections in Washington, D. C., Maryland, Florida,
and throughout the Boston Area.
Pat is also a historian of art and architecture with research
focused largely on the early work of Le Corbusier. A Cambridge
resident since graduate studies at Harvard in the late 1950s,
she is a Trustee of People for Riverbend Park and in recent
years instigated and helped organize the Celebrate the
Sycamores event honoring the 100th anniversary of the
transformation of the Cambridge riverfront and the planting of
its famous allee of trees. An advocate for the peaceful,
pleasurable use of the Charles River and its parkland and a
firm believer in citizens' hands-on help for the environment,
she adopted the MDC playlot in Riverbend Park. Since 1982 she
has been organizing and tending the flower planting there and
the daffodil planting along the banks of the river, with the
help of students from the Shady Hill School and many other
volunteers.
For Pat, caring for the landscape or recording it in
watercolor or on film are just different aspects of the same
thing-- her admiration and respect for the wonders of nature.
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