Patch Somerville
This work is a meditation on the space of creative activity.
The paintings are a product of many hours, days, weeks spent
shuffling around the studio, building canvases, reading the
newspaper, getting drunk, rearranging old pieces, pacing, staring
at walls, drinking too much coffee, and eventually painting.
I’m interested in how traces of previous artistic efforts can evolve
into new generations of work and potentially distill some meaning
or truth from a studio practice that looks increasingly inward.
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