Pat Schaverien was born into a Jewish family in Ealing, London, England on 12 October 1951. She studied Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic and Hornsey School of Art (1974-76), then Printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art (1976), describing herself as 'fascinated by the process' from then on; she went on to set up a printmaking studio in Clerkenwell, producing etchings and aquatints. In 1977 she was the recipient of an Arts Council of Great Britain Award and over the next two decades, exhibited extensively in London including at the Everyman Cinema Gallery, Hampstead (1977), the National Film Theatre, London (1979), St Pancras Library (1983), and Woodlands Art Gallery, Blackheath (1984). She held two joint exhibitions with the Ben Uri Art Society: in 1982 (with Lee Goodman and Barbara Shukman) - when Barry Fealdman (Jewish Chronicle, 11 June 1982) noted that ‘her main objective is to explore the subtle qualities of space, light and shade, using architectural forms as a vehicle. Her complete control of her medium, her sensitive vision and her feeling for atmosphere place her among the outstanding printmakers of today’ – and in 1990 (with members of the Printers Inc. Workshop). In 1995 her work was selected for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and in 1997 she participated in the final exhibition at Ben Uri Gallery's Dean Street premises, Towards 2000, featuring 20 British and 20 Israeli printmakers, when she showed prints of Waterloo Station and the Chrysler Building in New York. She was a member of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers and lived and worked in London.
Pat Schaverien died in London, England on 6 May 2023. Her work is held in the Ben Uri Collection and the V&A.
