Ceanothus and Yellow Rose on Table
Critic's Choice
The Times Saturday Review March 21st by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Emily Patrick, Paintings 2013-2015
If the long dark winter leaves you feeling despondent, here are some paintings to recalibrate your mood. Patrick has lightness of touch and depth of perception.
My Exhibition
Artists & Illustrators, April 2015
Emily Patrick
Paintings 2013–2015 is the latest collection of figurative scenes and still life compositions from one of the UK's most tender, poetic and instinctive painters.
More Exhibitions
Financial Times, March 7th by Jackie Wullschlager
Emily Patrick, Gallery 8, London
Emily Patrick holds a material sensuality in tension with a formal architectonic structure that acknowledges the complexity of modernist picture-making. She paints ravishing still lifes — flowers, table tops, food, dolls — in oil and tempera on gesso grounds (a mix of chalk and rabbit-skin glue). Her textures — by turns leathery, glassy, crisp, soft, airy, fluid — are alive, her colours luminous yet subtle, and the enclosed interior world she creates is timeless yet also fixes a moment in time. She works reclusively, has no dealer, exhibits only every few years, and is among the most individually expressive painters working today.