Of Water and Spirit
These paintings begin in my observations of the constantly shifting light, color, and forms found in the surface patterns of various creeks and streams that I frequent. From these beginnings in the natural world, these paintings continue to evolve, transform, and reinterpret these phenomena within the poetry of the paint medium in order to realize a more complete synthesis of observation, imagination, and material. The increasing abstraction of these paintings moves them further from a literal interpretation of the natural world to possibly suggest the latent imagery of a world, at once shadowy and glittering, where spirit and matter meet.
--Patrick Adams, 2012
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Of Water and Spirit
These paintings begin in my observations of the constantly shifting light, color, and forms found in the surface patterns of various creeks and streams that I frequent. From these beginnings in the natural world, these paintings continue to evolve, transform, and reinterpret these phenomena within the poetry of the paint medium in order to realize a more complete synthesis of observation, imagination, and material. The increasing abstraction of these paintings moves them further from a literal interpretation of the natural world to possibly suggest the latent imagery of a world, at once shadowy and glittering, where spirit and matter meet.
--Patrick Adams, 2012
Sections