BA Hons
Fine Art
Southampton Institute
Awards
Arts Council 2003
Best Painting, Brighton Art Fair 2005
BIOGRAPHY
"I want to create art that holds a sense of drama and takes on an almost religious quality. I have been exposed to a lot of ecclesiastical imagery both as a child and through travel. Feasting on the works of masters such as Titian and Caravaggio along with the sublime work of Turner and apocalyptic landscapes of John Martin, has definitely informed the visual language of my landscapes & figurative paintings. Since graduating in 1997 I have lived and worked in Brighton, UK. exhibiting regularly in various galleries nationally."
"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