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Pat Caulfield, inSight Arts, visually impaired artists at Creative York
Visually impaired artist Pat Caulfield, founder of nonprofit InSight Arts, opens Artist Visions at Creative York May 7, 2026.
Pat Caulfield started seeing the world more clearly through her artwork after losing her eyesight.
It inspired her to help other visually impaired artists through insightarts.org and organizing the exhibit Artist Visions, opening May 7 at Creative York.
“I’ve always been an artist,” Caulfield said recently while surrounded by art spanning her career at her West Manchester Township home studio. She started drawing with her father when she was a little girl.
“Started in pencils and ink and I never painted that much, now I just paint all the time. I don’t really do much pencil work anymore,” Caulfield said.
The early work is precise and detailed. That all changed as Caulfield experienced drastic changes in her vision.
Glaucoma started rapidly compromising what she could see and how she perceived distance.
“Typically with glaucoma, you lose peripheral vision and your vision closes in. That didn’t happen with me,” she said. Instead, Caulfield said that she started losing vision in the top half of her left eye and lost the center of her right eye.
The loss of vision forced Caulfield to look deeper and made her new interpretation of the world stand out.
“My work was very realistic for many years, and I started to go away from that. That is when people started noticing my work. The work became more internal. I put what I was truly feeling on that board rather than looking at something and trying to represent it.”
“I switched more into abstract work and just didn’t plan everything out. I think the work became more authentic,” Caulfield concluded.
Founded in 2025, InSight Arts began as a small artist collective and has grown into a nonprofit dedicated to supporting artists and engaging the community through exhibitions, education and outreach.
Artists Vision will feature several artists, local and from across the United States.
Mary Schultz is an artist from York whose joyful paintings reflect resilience, creativity and a deep love of art. She is legally blind in one eye and relies on her dominant eye for vision. Since her diagnosis and vision loss Mary’s work has expanded to embrace the abstract, often working in mixed media.
Johnnie Wiggins is a Black artist who is currently incarcerated. He discovered his artistic voice seven years ago when he decided to pick up a pencil and draw, which evolved and blossomed into a love for painting.
The exhibit Artist Visions will open at Creative York at 10 N. Beaver St. on May 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. and run until June 20. Learn more and RSVP at insightarts.org.
You can reach Paul Kuehnel at pkuehnel@ydr.com.
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