Patty Bailey Sheets is native to the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina where she makes her home and maintains her studio.

Her heirloom quality oil portraits capture the essence of the subject with a poignantly sensitive classic realism. Her paintings are composed to express the spirit of the subject in a moment in time.

Patty's formal education began at the school of design at NCSU and continued at Salem college where she earned a ba in studio art and graduated magna cum laude and with honors in art. She won the Rondthaler award for art and has received numerous other awards for her paintings. she studied portrait painting with some of the best artists in the field including Susan Lyon, Scott Burdick, Mary Minifie, Tom Edgerton, George Thompson, Dawn Whitelaw, and Rose Frantzen.