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Sun Zoom Spark by Patrick Hillard 34×39 inches

£465.00

Another song title from Captain Beefheart. ( Don Van Vliet ).

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  • Store Name: Saint Marys Studio
  • Seller: Saint Marys Studio
  • I am a Norfolk born artist painting abstract pictures in oil and mixed media, and have been a full time artist for the last seven years. Art has been a lifetime preoccupation and means of personal expression, as a child, throughout the day job years and now. Art is the way I digest the world in unique and fascinating ways, particularly now through my abstract paintings. I always had a keen interest in creativity and art as a small child, but at school this was not deemed as important. I was not deterred, as I harboured this overriding desire to put things on canvas, and to paint. I was always ahead in terms of artistic merit, and at secondary school art teacher George Tuck nurtured my skills and pushed me forward. Whatever support I received at school, I realise now that the keen interest for all things creative was in my genes from my mother’s side. She encouraged my passion. I also remember my grandma with great fondness, ahead of her time, unique and avant-garde in her views, ‘modern’ notions of relationships and a pet pig! All this I see now as crucial to my motivation and coming to fruition in my current abstract work. Some time ago, there was a reunion at my old school, a listed building which had been badly damaged in a fire. I was unable to go, but was overwhelmed to find out from my brother, that my work as a child was still on the wall. For me it laid testimony to that early passion. As is the frequent story, life happened with work and family, and art could not be a main preoccupation. But still I would disappear when I could to an office at home, painting pictures on anything sometimes on plywood. I would see something in a book or would hear music and have to express it creatively. It was my daughter who wanted me to paint abstract pictures, and in her mission to achieve this gave me acrylic paints on Father’s Day in 2013. She just knew it was there in me, knew I could do it. Soon after, I painted my first abstract picture, and unfortunately never got to show it to her. It’s now a legacy on our wall. I left my old style behind and never looked back. My art has always allowed me to escape the mundane, and I want to communicate that to the viewer. We lead lives dictated by routine and other imperatives, and my aim is to steal the viewer away from this, inviting them into another dimension, sometimes elevating them to a higher plane of realisation, even if for a brief moment. I want to have a positive effect on the viewer, thus making my environment better. I love interacting with visitors to my studio about my themes and techniques, and get an enormous sense of appreciation and validation when my work is purchased. My style is pure abstract inspired mainly by music, literature and modern poetry. But for a while now, I have been engaged in an ongoing series concerning Bar Codes. I love the structure and layout of the barcode – attractive, rigid and set, and equally inspired by its significance. It’s invasive, ubiquitous. It’s everywhere. I have a love hate relationship with the barcode! Consider the story about Elizabeth Lihou from Guernsey, manager of an old, preserved Victorian sweet shop, who closed down, rather than face the National Trust’s diktat to introduce electronic barcodes. The story crystallises my feelings about the bar code. My techniques vary between poured mediums and other self-devised methods, which can be both satisfying and exasperating in equal measure. I am fascinated by the interaction of incompatible materials for example oil and water based paints. I love the unpredictability and the process of discovery. I realise that I can’t be in a rut, churning out the same formulaic pieces. Some artists are happy to stick to the same themes and methods, which they feel bring them success, but I want to look forward. When I worked in construction all those years, we were continually working ourselves out of a job - you build a house for this person and then you move on to the next. The Jethro Tull song sums up my desire to move on sometimes precariously into new dimensions - Skating Away, On the Thin Ice of a New Day. I have sold some big pieces with Art in the Heart. Clients also visit my studio by appointment. I have participated in Open Studios and exhibited regularly with West Norfolk Artists Association. My solo show at The Soul Café in Kings Lynn was well received and in 2015, I won the Corporate Sponsors Purchase Prize at the WNAA Summer Exhibition. I am now looking to exhibit in galleries.
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