Generations: William Patterson, Jeremiah Patterson
Jeremiah Patterson
“Drawing is at the core of my work. While many of my friends growing up turned to the pages of a Superman or Batman comic to inspire and hone their drawing skills, I have been incredibly blessed to be able to learn to draw, for as long as I can remember, directly from William Patterson, my dad, my inspiration, my drawing teacher and my superhero. Whether it is his direct lessons on learning how to see, how to model the darks and lights of a form and/or exercises aimed to refine the most important gift an artist can be taught, the development of a sensitive touch, my dad’s lessons continue to teach me each and every day.
Watercolor has been my primary painting medium for the majority of the past 30+ years. I love both watercolor’s direct process and its ability to allow a very methodical approach of layering one transparent veil of color over another to add richness, complexity, and luminosity to the whole work. I make every effort to follow nature and build paintings with illusions of form, space and realistic, rich colors and textures. Most of my work is done from direct observation, sketches made from observation and/or from the collective memory instilled from having done those numerous sketches, all with a goal of making the arrangement feel natural and honest, as if the viewer just happened upon a quiet moment of everyday life. I choose my subjects to make subtle reference to themes found in my favorite works from past masters, working to create compositions, which while touching on these timeless subjects, make every effort to do so by revealing them in a realistic and contemporary way.”
– Jeremiah Patterson
19×19 in
10×8 in
38×24 in
8×8 in
11×18 in
William Patterson
“I am a Contemporary Realist painter. Contemporary Realism is more than narrative, encompasses fantasy, reality and psychology, and is grounded in a thorough understanding of abstraction and contemporary concepts of picture space.
The aesthetic content of my work is a result of intense visual study, looking into and through nature. Various themes are expressed through the multi-layers of meaning achieved with composition, in the handling of paint, and the manipulation of space, atmosphere and light. My work is neither formalistic nor purely naturalistic, but a delicate balance of both abstraction and reality. What is expressed, if it is to have meaning is achieved through abstraction. What is felt, what I see visually and emotionally comes from life around me.
The series of recent paintings are about Places, inside and outside. Much of the work is focused on Deerfield Massachusetts and Italy, in both landscape subjects and still life/interior compositions. A new series began while teaching in Cortona, Italy in 2009 continuing the (outside) landscape theme.”
6×5 in
5×6 in
6×6 in
6×6 in
Works on Paper
27.5×20 in
14×11 in
10×14 in
10×10 in