- Born in Paris on the 14th of December 1961.
- Patricia SIMSA is a self-taught french artist who started her career with sculpture, and then painting. She participated to a lot of exhibitions through Europe.
- Simsa’s art seems to enjoy a perpetual holiday and it invites us to participate in its witty extravagances. For humour and high spirits – implying the good-natured perception, not devoid of a keen perspicacity, of the human condition – are part of her creative powers in the fields both of the art of painting and the indirect expression of a philosophical approach to everyday life.
- When Simsa paints human figures – mainly female – she first sets them up in a multicoloured but subtly homogeneous décor. Then she starts concentrating on their physical features and attitudes, in such a way that their character and their thoughts or intentions are clearly revealed. Her technique is akin to the caricaturist’s: she may exaggerate some traits, but she never distorts them to the point of making them ridiculous.
- Simsa provides her personages with heart-shaped or protruding cuplike lips, like the honey-sucking rostrum of some insect. The situations in which she shows them are either scenes she has witnessed or situations she draws from her imagination. But thanks to her mastery of technique which is much better than simply descriptive, her power of staging events and her skilful and sensitive use of colour, she succeeds in actually drawing us into her own little world and to make us adopt it without any restriction.