Patrick Cullen PNEAC

Statement

Although for years as a painter of European landscape, Patrick has recently found a new subject in the streets and markets of India. He works in oils, pastels and watercolour. To write about his artistic aims and influences would require more space than he has.

Methodology

Patrick works mainly in pastels when travelling and gathering ideas for paintings. As well as using a sketchbook, he completes a number of pastels ‘on site’, some of which may become the basis for larger paintings in oils or watercolour back in the studio. For pastels Patrick works mainly on Wallis paper, an extra fine sandpaper of archival quality developed by the pastellist Kitty Wallis. Patrick tends to only work in watercolour for extra large subjects and he uses a roll of Bockingford NOT stretched on a 6ft x 4ft board, working flat on the studio floor. For oils: a fine oil primed canvas. His work is either completed from life or based on studies done from life because the process of observing nature is the source of his inspiration. A photograph by-passes this process and presents one with a mechanically derived image rather than ones subjective response to the visual world.

Bio

1949 Born on 8 August

1972-73 St. Martins School of Art

1973-76 BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Camberwell School of Art

1990-2003 Elected a Member of the Pastel Society

1994-2000 Elected to serve on the Pastel Society Committee

1997 Elected a Member of the New English Art Club