Patricia Hofstede is a painter and costume designer based in Amsterdam. 

In Patricia Hofstede’s painting and costume design practice, the two fields are intimately related: both embody a sense of timelessness and inherent beauty. Patricia’s earthy palettes, distinct language of geometric forms and associative symbolism foster an environment of meditative stillness and resonance.

Patricia’s paintings can be described as spiritual landscapes: they embody connections between personal or internal imaginaries and larger collective, universal and cosmic spheres. These paintings are rooted in an intuitive creative process, and as such strongly evoke mood and atmosphere. 

Patricia’s aesthetics are closely related to the materials she uses. Her abstract paintings of varying dimensions take as their starting point the natural colors and textures of undyed, quality fabric: linen, burlap, and cotton. Conversely, her designs for stage costumes emphasize qualities related to her painterly work: simplicity, spirituality, symbolism and monumentality. In recent years, Patricia has contributed to interdisciplinary collaborations in the fields of the arts, music, and theater with internationally renowned directors and performing artists. 

Among others, she designed costumes for the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir, led by John Eliot Gardiner, for their landmark project to experience all three surviving operas by Monteverdi; l’Incoronazione di Poppea, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and l’Orfeo. In 2019 she was the costume designer for their tour of Handel’s Semele. 

Patricia has worked with director Sjaron Minailo on several projects. She designed costumes for ‘Future Opera’ at the Bergen National Opera, The arrival of Mr Z by composer Meric Artaç, and most recently for the opera Notwehr, composed by Annelies van Parys at the Biennale in Venice.

Atelier Paradis ia the name given to the garments that have emerged from the studio since 2016 and have led to many collaborations in the field of costume design.