Patience Hilda Street Paintings

Patience Hilda Street was born on 11th December 1905 in Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, and was educated in Belgium. She was an artist and photographer. She married Patrick Birley in England and they moved to Victoria, BC, Canada, where her children were born. She had many one-man shows at art galleries in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia, and in Honolulu Hawaii. Her preferred medium in her earlier life was pastel, but later she turned her interest more towards oils and acrylics. She was always a specialist in portraiture - both people and animals, although animals were by far her preference. It was often noted that she had a knack for capturing the personality of an animal in her pictures. After her first husband, Patrick Birley’s death in 1962, she moved to Honolulu which she had always loved. There she met and later married Charles Street. After his death, she met and married Barry Bauernschmidt. She died on 25 September 2010 at the age of 104 in Honolulu, Hawaii.