Pat Service responds to landscape with instinctive, expressive and colourful brush strokes, producing in her paintings the textures of nature, the shifting of light and a personal reaction to her surroundings. The paintings' surfaces are marked with expressive colour, reflecting the subtleties of light in both the sky and water. She takes nature as a starting point, and drawing from a tradition of Post-Impressionism and Fauvism, uses surprising colours and intuitive paint application to evoke the spirit of a place rather than record it like a photograph.