FROM FINE ART TO HEALING ART... After a car accident in 2004, Beverley A. Pattenden discovered life altering pain relief through acupuncture, she began studying Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zen Shiatsu and whole foods cooking. After three years of study at the International School of Shiatsu, Beverley recently initiated Creative Human Potential - a practice founded on the integration of Zen Shiatsu, Five Element theory, Moxibustion, Taoist philosophy and her own innovative concepts regarding the modern body mind complex. Synchronously, Beverley is developing a specialized exercise program, she has entitled Chop Wood Carry Water. It is a therapeutic fusion of QiGong, meridian stretches, strength training, yoga and free form movement.

Beverley's moxie continues as she launches The Cinnabar Foundation a collaborative group of healing artists who specialize in working post traumatically with survivors of abuse.

At the age of seven years, she began to exhibit her inherent artistic ability while embarking on the final voyage of the Queen Mary on a family holiday, she entered an art competition in the children's nursery winning first prize.

Beverley's early talent was later cultivated by pursuing a formal art education at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Additionally, she consistently sought the guidance and painted with mentors, spending summers at Bennington College where her primary focus was abstract painting and sculpture. During the early 1980s, Beverley established a successful mural, faux painting & conservation business painting for numerous residential, museum and commercial clients.

In the mid eighties, she returned to her native country, England, to study special effects make-up in London. Returning to the United States, she worked with photographers and music video directors exercising her proficiency with make-up, styling, and set designing.  

In 1993 she announced the birth of her daughter, Lily, which allowed her to take a hiatus and concurrently delve into her passion for abstract painting.

In 2000, she consolidated this wisdom along with her innate curatorial eye and opened her own gallery, In Rare Form Gallery. The impetus of this inventive gallery was to create an experiential and unpredictable environment that clients could entrust and anticipate a constant uniqueness by promoting the gifts of both renowned and up-and-coming artists and designers such as the "DROOG" designers.  

While on the board of directors for FACT (Fighting Aids Continuously Together - a local fund raising non-profit organization that raises money for local residents living with HIV and AIDS) and the Michener Museum she helped to promote and design fund raising events. This volunteer work organically emanated In Rare Form Design, a stylish boutique event design and production business.