About Us
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
For over 30 years Allen and Pat Littlefield have been engaged in a joint endeavor of creating their artwork, their living environment and their life together. They built their house and studio by themselves (with a little bit of help from their friends) and are constantly involved in expanding and improving both as they have done with their collage and ceramic work. In their "spare time" they have built stone walls, paths in the woods and occasional gardens.
For the Littlefield's their art and life are intertwined and are constantly evolving and influencing each other from the designs they see in nature to the trips they take to building materials and new technology.
Pat hails from upstate South Carolina and grew up there in a small town. Then she studied music and art at Florida State University and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BA in Art cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She attended graduate school at East Carolina University in North Carolina for a year.
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Pat has worked with several media including handmade paper, soft sculpture and photography and enjoys combining them.
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Her current work focuses on photography including making both digital and physical collages from her photos.
I like working with photography in a non traditional way and look to carry the art of photography beyond what one expects. Software plays a large role in the photos. It is used to collage and create images that never existed. Then filters and overlays and everything else available is used. Also I enjoy taking printed photos apart and physically collaging them into a new piece.The images are combined with my own handmade paper and purchased papers. Each finished product is different and different processes were used to achieve the final result.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, the artist spent his childhood years in areas of the United States as divergent as New York City, Pennsylvania, Florida, and the state of Washington. Littlefield later returned to Wilkes-Barre where he graduated from Wilkes College with a BA in Art Education. After four years of teaching art on both the elementary and high school levels in the Kingston City School system of Kingston, NY, Littlefield moved to New Paltz. There he pursued graduate studies under ceramics instructors Kenneth Green and Robert Sedestrom at the State University of New York. He was employed as a graduate ceramics teaching assistant and received a Master of Fine Arts degree.
An observer of people and their foibles and habits, Allen's work deals mainly with his comments on the human condition. He also does pieces that are mostly fantasy but still have their origins in reality.
Our Story In Photographs
