Pati defines her watercolor creations as visionary art. Her goal in painting is to share her Native American beliefs and stories of the elders with non native and Native Americans in hopes of reconciliation of the two. She believes the cultural resources of both communities need to be combined in respect and understanding for the mutual benefits of all. The children of the future deserve no less.

Pati Deuter was raised in the mountains of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her interest in art blossomed as she traveled the country as a performer with the Ice Follies Ice Show where she used every spare moment to draw and paint a wide variety of landscapes and her favorite subject, people.

She feels honored to use her friends as models for each of her paintings and writes of the beauty of life's paths in the corner of most of her pieces. Each original is embossed with one of three plates which represents each of the tribes that surrounded her as she grew up which were Apache, Navajo and Hopi. Frames surrounding each original are made from various woods, all done by hand.

Pati has a very full show schedule which varies from year to year. She was included as one of the top five artists featured in a P.B.S. television special titled "Artist Ride".