ABOUT PAT

I prefer to evoke ideas that are metaphoric and poetic, rather than to describe. I think the many facets of an experience - an individual’s voice, a string of notes, a sudden motion, transitions and rhythms – are all elements capable of revealing insights about our world. I try to capture a sense of fleeting time, a glimpse of parts that suggest the whole, and the energy of a continuum. I hope to create a work where color, texture, and mark offer the observer an absorbing entrance to their own experiences and thoughts.

I seize upon nuances from my surroundings and life as points of departure. I simplify shapes to suggest their recognizable relatives, and I hope to generate more than one interpretation.

Line is important in my work and I envision it as a generative, time-based element. I attempt to weave together a surface of elements to create energy, tempo, and spatial relationships. Color is also used to compose, create depth and emotion.

I endeavor to employ visual elements that will enable subtle dynamic changes of the visual hierarchy each time a work is encountered.