Patrick bremer biography wife

Rubens painted Two Satyrs in and I love the idea of taking these beautiful old paintings and giving them my own twist. Up until this one and the dead bird collages, my work has been mainly traditional portraiture in oils or collage, often to commission. I am always seeing people around town that I want to draw or paint, and I used to paint a lot of the locals at a pub I worked at a few years ago.

I always loved painting and I grew up in a very artistic family, my father being a painter and art teacher. It was the way these artists dealt with flesh in their work — Francis Bacon in a very visceral and violent way, whereas Uglow would meticulously measure every part against the other.

Patrick bremer biography wife: Patrick Bremer was born in Brighton

I wanted my work to be a combination of both — loose and carefree mark-making that leads to happy accidents in the work, but also carefully planned out. I am now aiming to achieve that juxtaposition through collage as well as paint. I ended up doing collage out of circumstance. I am lucky to have a good studio, but in the winter months it is so cold in there that I wanted to find a way of working at home in the evenings, but without destroying the house with paint.

I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up and the first one I finished was of my nephew George. Since then they have been growing larger and more experimental, getting freer with the knife each time and trying to treat them in my mind as paintings or drawings. I love the exploration involved with collage work.