| "Patrick
O’Donnell’s radiant and powerful abstract paintings
won him the Neo Hotel Art Prize at last year’s Brighton
Art Fair. His oil paintings depict the power and grandeur of the
forces of nature, swirling mists, and Krakatoan vistas."
Latest 7, Sussex
"Patrick
O'Donnell's oil paintings consist of intense, gorgeous colours
that merge into one another. In these maps of luminous colour,
jagged lines meet one another in evocations of dramatic beauty..."
Hattie Gordon, Author
"Patrick O’Donnell’s
paintings are brooding landscapes of vivid colour and bold composition.
With a nod to the apocalyptic visions of John Martin, Joseph Wright
and JMW Turner, they are highly dramatic, with an almost religious
intensity. O’Donnell may find inspiration in the solidity
of the real world - printed images, personal photos - but his
painting is a far more intuitive process. The composition and
colour evolves through the application of layer after layer of
paint. Perhaps it is this process that gives the paintings their
richness - a depth that magnetises and seduces the viewer."
Robin Dashwood, BBC
Patrick's recent body of work encompasses
paintings derived from images taken on his travels to the USA
in summer 2007 and more recently a visit to the jurassic coast
of the Devon and Dorset border. These are found in the latter
galleries.
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