Please join us at Paderewski Fine Art to watch contemporary landscape artist Patrick Matthews paint.
Pat’s success is propelled by two unusual gifts. Both immediately relate to how he sees things. First, there is Pat’s uncanny knack to render the physical world in two, three, and four-point perspectives. And second, there is his ability to depict nature so as to show a range of hidden colors the casual observer might otherwise miss.
Pat says, “What I like most about what I do is that I learn something new every day and the sum is always greater than the parts. It’s hard to describe. The best I’m able to do by way of describing the experience is to say that the energy that flows out of me when I paint seems to come from different sources other than my body. Each of these outside sources – the weather, the smell of the forest, the sounds of water and the wildlife, the wind, the temperature, the stillness, the solitude – the color and texture of the oil paint…seems to create its own energy. And the force of these combined energies is greater than the parts. Indeed sometimes, particularly when I’m painting outdoors, I’ll look at my hands (and I often paint with both hands) and wonder how they know to do what they’re doing! I’ll be the first to admit that the experience can be just a little bit spiritual. For a fact, if I get in a groove the day passes and only later will I realize that I had been working in something that can only be described as another dimension and the work that has appeared on my canvas is the work of a more accomplished soul who has been using me to communicate a vision I have until then only partially seen. I am learning how to paint every day.”
Paderewski Fine Art is located in Beaver Creek, on the Plaza level of the Hyatt, across from the ice rink. Call 970-949-6036 or visit www.paderewskifineart.com for more information.
If you go…
What: Artist Patrick Matthews.
Where: Paderewski Fine Art, Beaver Creek.
When: March 8th – 18th. 11am to 4pm
More information: 970-949-6036 or www.paderewskifineart.com.