Portrait 
Calvino’s with the Dentons and Drew 
Red Dahlia 
Guitar and Piano II
Patrick McGee was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. He moved to the Memphis area in September 2018. Patrick has been playing music professionally for twenty-five years. He has performed solo, accompanied other musicians, and has performed in various bands, including a 70’s R&B cover band and the performance art group Logic Alley.
In 2020 Patrick released his debut EP “Serenade The Muse”. The EP is a collection of six original songs in the genres of Americana, folk, with a hint of country. Produced with the help of some Memphis friends, “Serenade The Muse” is available on all streaming services, such as Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, and Amazon.
Patrick has been painting in oil color since the early 2000’s. His painting styles range from realism and floral to abstract-surrealism and avant-garde. Patrick has shown paintings in Toledo, Bowling Green, Ohio, Columbus, and Cincinnati. Since moving to the mid-south in 2018. Patrick has shown at the Beale Street Art Crawl, Pinch District Artist’s Market, and is a member of Artist Link, Memphis. You can see Patrick’s work on Instagram @patrickinoil.
Patrick currently lives in beautiful Byhalia, MS with his poet wife and black cat, quietly mastering the fine art of BBQ tacos.
In partnership with Patrick, the Byhalia Area Arts Council is in the process of designing a mural to beautify and highlight the history of Byhalia. The mural will be on the side of the Byhalia Library, overlooking the Byhalia park.
A message from the artist on his work creating murals:
“Trina and I are from northwest Ohio, where the landscape is flat and forever, much like eastern Arkansas. Replace endless cotton fields with endless corn, wheat and soybean fields, and you can visualize the land surrounding our small town of Swanton, OH.
In 2018 we found our way to the Mid-south and the wonderful town of Byhalia. The day we finalized the purchase of our house on East School Street, I texted my family our address and told them we live in Mississippi now. My brother texted back “you’re in jail, in Mississippi?” I thought he was just trying to be funny, until I saw the image of our house on Google Maps. The image isn’t of our house, it’s the big white building next to our house, the old HomeEc building. Apparently, that’s as far up the street as Google could make it. Not the most attractive building, we thought that we could correct that. We began making plans for a mural project shortly after.”
Click here to view more on the Byhalia Library Mural Project.