Artist
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Snape
As a contemporary artist I use oil paints, acrylic and also less traditional mediums, I apply the paint and build a layered surface with the use of expressive mark making to symbolize the atmosphere of the reed beds, marshes, movement and life in the land, sea and sky. My art work is about a sense of place, weather conditions, emotion and energy. I want to make each painting interesting and powerful; a unique story in itself. Much of the inspiration that makes me want to paint comes from the landscape and seascape that surround me here in Suffolk where there are many wild places and beautiful broads existing near to the sea with marshes and reed beds that stretch out across vast estuaries and waterways. It truly is an inspiring landscape to live and work in. I was born in Lowestoft and lived in Suffolk all my life and it's a place I hold a deep affinity with. The latest oil paintings are of a rugged shoreline along the coast where a broad (inland lake) surrounded by reeds meets the sea and where the sandy cliffs tumble onto the shingle and into the waves. I often work in series of paintings based on a place and time that I have seen and experienced. I paint atmospheric weather conditions and storms and how these interact with the sea, sky, and land; I paint the reeds on Carlton Marshes near my Broadland home; the dark North Sea and the mysterious salt-marsh estuaries of East Anglia. I take many photographs and use these along with direct experience and feelings about that experience as a starting point for my artwork, often working very expressively or taking the work to a semi-abstract form. www.patriciacolyer.co.uk
Exhibitions and Events
2016