moving light: drawings and paintings

up-to-date

2006-12-14T11:32:00.000-08:00

For those of you looking for my recent work, visit
www.patriciasdrawings.blogspot.com or follow this link.

a little piece of heaven

2006-08-12T07:57:00.000-07:00

acrylic, ink, paper and copper collage. 50 cm x 31 cm.

rooftops

2006-07-30T12:48:00.000-07:00

tree bark and acrylic on a swiss-recycled paper bag.

dry lands

2006-07-30T12:41:00.000-07:00

organic inks on handmade flax fiber paper, 10"x 14"

tie-dye church

2006-07-20T09:05:00.000-07:00

sketch for tie dye and stained glass window church installation---

Black Water

2006-07-20T07:43:00.000-07:00

ink and acrylic on Arches paper, 13"x 21"

europa

2006-07-20T05:26:00.000-07:00

from briviesca to berlin

2006-07-20T05:04:00.000-07:00

collaborative work

Aries-- acrylic on wood panel

Lugano

2006-07-07T03:32:00.000-07:00

"Lago Siva & Pamela", acrylic, vegetable ink, and lace, on local handmade paper.

Monte Bre

2006-07-07T03:13:00.000-07:00

acrylic, vegetable ink and swiss bark on ticinese hand made wool paper.

Berlin Church Fox

2006-07-06T03:17:00.000-07:00

"crocodile, tiger or fox?", paper, ink, acrylic and applique on recycled paper, 11"x 18".

Revisiting Schwarzwald

2006-07-05T10:05:00.000-07:00

"lightning at schuldsee", ink and paper collage on arches hot press, 16"x 20".

"black lakes, black forests", ink and acrylic on arches hot press, 20"x 30"

forest magic painting--

Artist Statement, June 2006

My paintings explore the memory of experience when in natural landscape, through travelling, and living in Los Angeles, California. An urban city surrounded by iconic palm trees, a romanticised place where mountains and oceans collide, I seek to paint the harmonious and symbiotic relationships exisiting in a Darwinian world. Contradictory and magical, sometimes dark and theatrical, the work brings a moment from time into focus, presenting and dissecting an ephemeral construct of place.

Using obsolete illustrated science books, which sought to explain a potentially inexplicable event, and exotic travel guides from the 80´s that highlight the countries I lived in, my paintings often allude to the mystical with invented birds or plants. The subjective perception of landscape leads to coded narrative in the paintings and drawings. The collage element is often times a direct reference to a particular person or place. Fabrics, appliqués or pieces of a tree may be part of the work. The decorative floral elements not only refer to patterns found within nature but also the memory of the Hindeloopen folk art that I grew up with in Holland.

My work does not intend to depict utopic natural landscape or places, instead, by working with the abstract nature of a memory, and the idea of artist as creator, the paintings explore what the world possibly could be and how landscape is a construction of the mind.
With my return to Spain, and my planned travels to places of which I have only vague memories, my recent paintings romanticize the Black Forest of Germany and explore even further how time filters and abstracts mental constructs of place.

Basel Art Fair, June 2006

2006-07-05T09:39:00.000-07:00

"flags on the old bridge", acrylic, fabric and paper collage on canvas, 7"x 6".

"swiss made triangle", acrylic, fabric and paper collage, 9"x 10".

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"this i know for sure"
tape, fabric and acrylic paint on a recycled paper bag, 24"x 12".

number 72

2006-06-22T17:20:00.000-07:00

Lost at E- Minor, (Australia)
15 - 06 - 06 / no.72

http://www.lostateminor.com/issue72.html

Patricia Fernandez is an LA based artist, born in Spain, who went to Saint Martins School of Art in London and UCLA. She is currently travelling throughout Europe to complete a series of works based on the re-presentation of landscapes from memory. 'My paintings explore the memory of experience when in a natural landscape', she says. ' I seek to paint the symbiotic relationships existing in a Darwinian world. Contradictory and magical, sometimes dark and theatrical, the work brings a moment from time into focus, presenting and dissecting an ephemeral construct of place'

in waves, echolocation

2006-06-09T09:44:00.000-07:00

acrylic, ink, coffee and paper collage on arches hot press, 32"x 26"

drawings from walks in the hills

2006-06-09T01:53:00.000-07:00

wind storm, acrylic, ink and paper collage on hot press, 13"x 17"

how all the trees fell down, acrylic, ink and paper collage on hot press, 13"x 17"

pollination, ink and acrylic on hot press, 13"x 17"

love explosion, ink and acrylic on hot press, 13"x 17"

26 things in a log cabin

2006-06-08T01:30:00.000-07:00

Staying on the grounds of a castle in the french countryside, near the village of Ville-cerf, i spent afternoons in the acres of forest. there i found many logs for firewood and cabin building. i expored the romantic notion of building a log cabin and staying among the infinite green, much of its territory unvisited by the owners. I began thinking about the essential things i would need to live there and came up with "26 things in a log cabin". Over a period of ten days I visited the forest and marked the logs with gold painted symbols representing the things i needed. Below is a selection of photographs documenting the thought process.

day ten

day nine

day eight

26 things in a log cabin

2006-06-08T01:14:00.000-07:00

day seven

day six

day five

day four

26 things in a log cabin

2006-06-06T00:59:00.000-07:00

day three

day two

day one

in briviesca

2006-06-05T06:45:00.000-07:00

fuentes blancas, santa casilda and blessed water wells.

collaborative works,

oil paint on wood-
carved wood panels created by jose-luis carcedo,
88 years old.

the northern-most trail

2006-06-05T03:24:00.000-07:00

picos de europa

2006-06-05T02:51:00.000-07:00

oil, and eucalyptus bark on handmade linen made by my great grandmother, 20"x 20".

re-presenting

2006-06-04T14:25:00.000-07:00

thinking about the black forest, when i was eight.

acrylic, ink, paper, fabric, and copper collage.

by caves, echolocation

2006-06-04T14:20:00.000-07:00

from hindeloopen

2006-05-23T03:11:00.000-07:00

acrylic, ink, and fabric on watercolor paper.

light paintings

2006-05-11T07:04:00.000-07:00

notes for a series of light sculptures-

Munch Dream

2006-05-09T12:41:00.000-07:00

when painting from memory an event or place, time changes the memory, which is the subjective reality. so you cant paint the memory, youre inventíng the day over again.

origin drawing

2006-05-03T20:41:00.000-07:00

spider web under arch.
acrylic, fabric, birch & paper collage on Arches hot press. 8" x 12".

An arc natural arch: "the lintel is always a very long, very slender arc of rock that is arched, although only slightly so. A cross section of the lintel varies little over much of its length. To qualify as an arc natural arch, the span must be at least ten times the lintel breadth. The lintel is typically supported by massive abutments, but this is not absolutely necessary. An arc natural arch is presumed to be very old and near the end of its lifecycle."

walt whitman was right

2006-05-03T14:44:00.000-07:00

peephole--

2006-05-03T14:39:00.000-07:00

arches out of the car window.

ink, acrylic, paper and birch collage on Arches hot press. 8" x 12"

one process

2006-04-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

night time drawings.
my best drawings happen before i fall asleep, after they are filtered through nighttime they become paintings.

sketches for installation

2006-04-30T19:54:00.000-07:00

Delaware water gap,

cemetery birch paper.

acrylic, fabric, cut leaves, paper and birch, 9" x 12".

Los Angeles Drawings

2006-04-27T17:59:00.000-07:00

when we swim in rock pools

Ink, acrylic, tape, cherry wood paper, and fabric collage on Arches hot press.
22" x 30"

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conversation while finding a tudor

House number one
three different kinds of palm trees.

ink, acrylic, cedar paper and fabric collage on Arches hot press.
22" x 30"

testing synergy

2006-04-27T17:54:00.000-07:00

SYNERGY: two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than the sum of the effects each is able to create independently.