Patrick J. Costello was born in 1940 in Omaha, Nebraska where he spent a lot of his youth hunting and fishing with his father. Later when his artistic talent emerged, he used his fondness for the outdoors as an example for his art work. Pat began drawing at a young age. As he grew older his love of art grew also and he knew that he wanted to be an artist for the rest of his life.

Shortly after moving to the Quad City, Iowa area in 1957, he entered the commercial art field where he gained recognition as a gifted artist. In 1976 he left his job to become a self-employed artist, devoting full-time to his art. The most notable of his many accomplishments was winning first and second place in the 1979 Iowa Habitat Print contest.

"Patrick has been a self-supporting artist for over 30 years. In 1979 he and his wife, Joan, moved to Maquoketa, Iowa after buying and restoring an old grist mill built in 1867 (their home and art gallery was featured on Home & Garden Television in 2004. A new shoot for HGTV is planned for early Oct. 2005). Patrick and Joan raised their two children, Tracy and John in this mill."

Patrick is self-taught, highly motivated, and an avid conservationist. He works from field sketches and photos he takes during the many hours he spends outdoors. He spends weeks or months working on his originals.....whether it is a painting or a sculpture. Limited edition reproductions are made from many of these originals.

The works of Patrick J. Costello are displayed in corporate and private collections around the country. His work is known for its exceptional detail, life-like quality and classic composition.
The sensitivity of his subjects touches the memory of anyone who has been in rural America.

Paintings of wildlife...from the tiniest hummingbird to the majestic white-tail deer...with their backgrounds of forest, field and marshes are all done with methodical detail and love.



He captures the melancholy of an old farm place (with its triumphs as well as broken dreams) dotted with rusty, abandoned old machinery and weather beaten old buildings with leaky roofs now inhabited only by cooing pigeons and sleeping raccoons.......these are the places you will find this artist. In time these places will be found only in the paintings of an artist who loved the land and nature.