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Patrick is interested in the notion of transition between real and metaphorically constructed space, the boundaries and opacities of colour, line and edge and the subsequent effects when they meet, merge or dissolve. Working in a reductive and non figurative manner offers him the freedom to filter a variety of inspirations, ideas and experience through exploring the relationships of simple formal elements. A major preoccupation of his work over the last decade takes inspiration from details of his immediate environment, domestic settings and places of personal connection, with glimpses of intersections that commonly appear more in our peripheral vision now taking centre stage as the impetus for his compositions. He works in a variety of formats in 2 and 3 dimensions and his practice oscillates between painting and printmaking, both processes increasingly important in how they are informing each other.
Patrick lives and works in Brighton and he has exhibited across the UK and Europe.
Highland Fling II, oil on canvas, 60 cm x 50 cm (currently on show at The Old Mill, Dundee with Frickleton Fine Art)
The idea of joy actively achievable through the quietest of actions prompted thoughts about traces of spaces, making your mark, a voice or a choice, a calling card, a signature, a colour way…
Broadstone II evolved from initial photographs of a semiderelict/demolished block of municipal flats in the Dublin neighbourhood of the same name. I have always been fascinated with the traces of what was once before, especially this kind of structure where decisions of taste and style are there for all to see, however transient. Ephemeral solidity at this point of mid destruction / demolition. These choices stand strong until eventually gone. This painting will be shown at The Stolen Orange Exhibition, Brighton Bond Street Studios, November 2025
