"My work is influenced by an early love of nature fostered by growing up in rural western Pennsylvania. The fields, the woods, to these I ran for consolation, nurture. Nature inspires me still. Her color combinations are always perfect; her beauty, unsurpassed. There is an also an Asian touch in my paintings. My husband is Japanese; we married and lived in Japan, and even after coming to California stayed for many years steeped in the customs of that land."  Patricia Nojima