atricia grew up in Southern California and attended Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, where she and her husband graduated. She also went to LA Art Center College of Design for 2 years. With 4 children (3 of which are grown and 1 in high school who still lives at home) and 3 young grandchildren, Luke, Kai, and Himalaya (Molly), they have lived in Utah, Massachusetts, and California where they currently reside on a very small ranch.

Her favorite things in life are her husband, children and family, having lots of animals (especially Newfoundland dogs, cats, draft horses and draft mules, and Scottish Highland cows), traveling, gardening, and endlessly fixing up their home with old doors and windows. Traveling and love of Newfs are in fact how she wrote her first book Seaman's Journal. While their kids were growing up, the family drove extensively throughout the regions of the Lewis and Clark Trail.

If she's not painting, she's undoubtedly reading, and her greatest interest is Russian art, architecture, and literature. Besides that, she loves walking, listening to soundtracks, going to movies (her oldest son William is a cinematographer: www.WilliamEubank.com), talking about books and running with her middle son Carlyle, admiring her youngest son Winchester's artwork of castles, knights, dragons, and mountains, and visiting her daughter Rosanna, who is the Director of the Wilmot, NH Library and an author, and her husband and their two sons and a new baby girl in their home—a cozy 1880's New England schoolhouse they are fixing up.

• "On February 18, 2010, I will be at the Ontario, Oregon Reads program where Seaman's Journal is 1 of 4 children's books chosen for a community reading project. I will get to see some local Newfies!! I will also read and sign my book at the event."
  
  
• "On February 27, 2010, I will be at the California Readers Author's Luncheon in Burbank, CA."
  
  

My new Spring book, ABCs of Easter, is out (with, of course, a Newfie in it, plus the Calico cat and English Sheepdog from Valentine ABCs, 1 black cat from ABCs of Halloween, and –naturally– bunnies). I really, really loved doing this book for I love painting bunnies too. We have had 4 bunnies of our own: Honeysuckle, a supersoft lop ear when Rosanna was very little, then 3 more incredibly cute small ones who mostly lived in Rosanna's dollhouse when she was in 3rd and 4th grade.