Patricia Kreps is a painter and photographer. Many of the subjects of her oil paintings are inspired by landscape views of the Midwest, the east coast, the south and Europe. Her artworks are in private and public collections in the United States and Europe. She paints her observations of the natural environment and explores the poetry and the metaphor found in landscape. Kreps has academic degrees from the University of Texas and the University of Missouri and taught fine arts courses at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.