As the sun exposed the snow-trampled grass outside the windows of the Drake Gallery, wispy rows of brush strokes bowed to an invisible wind in Lower School art teacher Patty Paulus’s paintings. Paulus painted her last on-site work in the Drake Gallery on April 25, one day before her exhibit, Color Currents, closed.

“The underlying objective to my work is to evoke an emotion from the viewer that taps into a memory of a time or place,” Paulus wrote in her artist statement for the exhibit.

Every Thursday this April, Paulus painted live in the gallery. Students and visitors were invited to enter a drawing to win a 22’’ x 30’’ “Transition Painting,” and the person whose name was drawn each week chose the colors for Paulus’s Thursday painting. For example, seventh grader Elsa Runquist picked Pale Organza, a light yellow, and Robin’s Egg, a light blue, for the April 25 painting. Sometimes while Paulus painted, Native American flute music played through the gallery.

Aside from teaching at St. Paul Academy and Summit School, Paulus also works in a home art studio. She often paints CD cover artwork for her husband, Stephen Paulus, who is a composer.