Pat Gamby was born in 1956. She lived with her husband, Steve, on their dairy farm that they had once operated for 31 years in Ohio. Retiring from farming in 2021 had brought them to Williamsburg to be near their daughter’s family.
Pat started drawing at 4 years old and encouraged by teachers amazed at her skill, began painting as a teenager. Even when she was still in high school and without any formal training, she was doing artwork on commission. She really began to take her art seriously when she and her husband Steve were struggling to make a go of farming and she discovered that her paintings would sell almost readily as the milk their dairy farm was producing. Countless scenes of rural life flowed from her brush. She loves working in egg tempera, a difficult medium, but the eggs had been handy coming from her own hen house.
