My name is Patrizia Macerollo Cohen. I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.

I studied medicine and specialized in Anatomical Pathology and Histopathology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1990 | left South Africa for Israel and worked as a Consultant Histopathologist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. In 1999 I relocated to London and since then I have been practising as a Consultant Histopathologist in North West London Pathology, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust.

My career in medicine has given me a lot of satisfaction but there was always a sense of something missing, of feeling unfulfilled.

I loved Art as a schoolchild and took up drawing and painting classes at the Johannesburg School of Art as an extra-curricular activity when I was in High School. I wanted to study Fine Art at university but ended up studying Science and then Medicine and specialising in Anatomical and Histopathology. While studying at university, and in my subsequent professional career, I unfortunately had no spare time for this pursuit.

When I moved to London in 1999, I had plenty of opportunities to satisfy my love of art by visiting art galleries and going to art exhibitions in London, Paris and Italy. The paintings evoked strong feelings in me, but the sculptures connected with me the most. They elicited the strongest emotions and I felt I wanted to pursue this art form.

In 2012 I finally enrolled in an evening sculpture life modeling class. From the first moment my hands felt the clay, sculpture became my passion. All the life scuplting classes I attended were under the tutelage of the extremely talented multi-faceted artist art tutor, David T. Waller.

Many of my pieces are from sculptures I completed in these classes. I try to connect with the subject while I'm sculpting and aim to reflect the mood or feeling the subject conveys in a particular pose. Some of my sculptures express strong emotions - sadness and despair, pain and agony, poise and reflection, as the names under each piece reflects.

I love sculpting the human form and my knowledge of anatomy has proven invaluable when I sculpt. I sculpt using the additive process. I add layers of clay to build up the shapes in the desired form. One of my sculptures "Dancer in Motion" has captured the movement and passion of dance with her flowing dress as she pushes forward on her toes and raises her arms gracefully. I plan to sculpt a series of dancers and my aim is to capture the beautiful shapes and movements of the dancer and so convey the emotions and energy of the dancer.