Pat Frederick is a wife, mother and veterinarian. She has worked as a veterinarian since 1966 and now retired. Her artistic endeavors began in high school but were not formalized by education until a seven year life in Australia. A four year Associate Diploma degree in painting followed a Certificate in Ceramics.

She has worked professionally with horses, dogs, cats and rabbits doing acupuncture and spinal manipulation for the last 16 years. When the animals change for the better the reciprocity to the veterinarian is addicting. Pat has barrel raced, ridden event horses, followed cattle on ranch work and reached FEI levels of dressage and was exposed to the many different body types of the different disciplines. These body types frequently show up in sculpture. The love of history of art and the history of the horse have combined to show up in sculpture. Welding is more like drawing, with metal armature to which is added texture and mood added with a patchwork of animal and body substance in steel. Bronze and other metals harken back to past centuries of discovery and to mythology. Horses are also strongly related to mythology in older ages and are the totem animal for Pat. Her sculpture encompasses horses who represent heroic images by their occupation and elevation of their riders to heroism.

She speaks for the Horse Slaughter Issue of 2008-9 with three sculptures of horses. And she represents the horse as beautiful objects of movement in a variety of poses.