Egyptian Temple3
Kashmiri Routes7
Accidental Abstract
All That Remains
Xlendi Reflections3
An extensive experience of global travel provides the basis for Patricia's art work. A camera and sketch book are the medium through which immediate impressions are captured and brought back to the studio. From the broad sweep of landscape to intimate details of a rock face, a drawing or photograph can mark the start of an artistic process or equally become the final output.
In the studio, Patricia translates experiences of the external world into printwork such as monoprints or collagraphs. These techniques demand a simplification of the complexities of what is seen into line, pattern and/or colour whilst conveying the essence of the subject. The output is often a play with ideas but always with the emphasis on producing an aesthetically pleasing outcome.
Photography is an important part of Patricia’s work. However it is not about keeping a record of travels but rather of reactions to the environment which might be the colours, the textures, shapes or patterns and their interaction. Some photographs do not focus on the object itself but rather on an indicator of its presence such as shadows or reflections which distort the original but beguile the eye with mystery and questions. Ideas and impressions become more important than the factual content. It is this difference in approach to taking photographs which moves the end product into the ambit of fine art photography and away from the documentary.
