painting by Patrick O'Donnell

YOU MAKE ME GAY is a project I have been working on for the last year - almost coming full circle in terms of genre as this is what I started doing when I first began to paint. I wanted to portray these people in a classical way, instilling them all with a gravity that reflects the importance of their influence on me - like beacons in the darkness. I started by painting isolated figures in Caravaggio paintings, focusing on characters on the periphery without whom the whole balance of the picture is lost. I became fascinated with the idea of capturing overlooked, marginalised or forgotten figures and decided to paint personal heroes who had informed my sensibility.

 

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COMPETITION
Win your very own Gay Icon - painted by Patrick!

As part of

BRIGHTON FRINGE FESTIVAL

YOU MAKE ME GAY


1st - 31st May 2010

at

The Oriental
Oriental Place
Brighton
BN1 2LJ