Tricia Reichert, formerly a nationally accredited high school teacher in Britain, came to the US with her husband in 1978. For the past 25 years, Tricia has studied and practiced drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. She specialises in the art of portraiture, of animals and people, and her other areas of expertise and interest include many forms of printmaking and figurative sculpture. She now works as a professional portrait painter and art teacher. Pastel is her medium of choice for portraits but she also works in many different mediums including, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil, printmaking, (etchings, woodcuts, linocuts, solar prints), and figurative clay sculpture.