Pat Flaherty has been a professional landscape and seascape artist drawing and painting realistically in oil and pastel. She has been exhibiting in New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York. Her professional affiliations include The Pastel Society of New Jersey, Art Space Studio, Morristown, NJ, West Essex Art Association, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Society, She has participated in the Garrison and the Barrett Art Center outdoor painting events on the Hudson River, Rhinebeck and Millbrook, New York. and with the Wetlands Institute Plein Air event in Stone Harbor, NJ. Her oil paintings and landscape or seascape drawings are in numerous private and public collections on the East Coast. She paints outdoors in all seasons.