Pat was born in Birmingham Alabama in 1968 and raised in Anniston, Alabama. In 1990 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Alabama with a major in Painting.  He went on to receive his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona in 1993 in Painting and Drawing. While at the University of Arizona he studied with Robert Colescott and Louis Jimenez. He furthered his art education with a residency at the Millay Colony in upstate New York in 1994. He has lectured about his art at Tulane University, Vanderbilt University, and Georgetown and is currently teaching art at the College and High School level and has shown his art nationally and internationally.