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Janet Patterson
The subject matter for my paintings has always been my immediate surroundings and that which occupies my immediate surroundings. They are autobiographical in experience.
The paintings relate to where I am, where I have been, and what is interesting me at any one moment. So a moth on a window at night and its stillness catches my attention; the shapes and movement of trees; light and shade on layered leaves; a single listening bird or jostling birds in heavy foliage.
Abstraction hovers in the paintings, sometimes dissolving into a bird or a leaf or an insect; but these are always there anyway in the genesis of the painting, and it is the addition of light, movement, atmosphere to these elements which occasionally removes that immediate recognition onto another plane.
The subject matter for my paintings has always been my immediate surroundings and that which occupies my immediate surroundings. They are autobiographical in experience.
The paintings relate to where I am, where I have been, and what is interesting me at any one moment. So a moth on a window at night and its stillness catches my attention; the shapes and movement of trees; light and shade on layered leaves; a single listening bird or jostling birds in heavy foliage.
Abstraction hovers in the paintings, sometimes dissolving into a bird or a leaf or an insect; but these are always there anyway in the genesis of the painting, and it is the addition of light, movement, atmosphere to these elements which occasionally removes that immediate recognition onto another plane.
 First Leaves, oil on canvas, h66cm x w91cm |
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 Night Flowers, oil on canvas, h92cm x w122cm, £3500 |