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Patrick Fanning, Graton, CA 95444 * 707-823-6610
Education/Training: B.A., University of San Francisco, 1969.
Workshops with Stephen Quiller,
Robert Burridge, Don Andrews, Dale Laitinen, Frank Francese, Alvaro Castagnet, Carol
Buchanan, Christopher Shink, Alex Powers.
Teaching: Instructor, Pacific Academy of Fine Arts,
1999-2000. Weekly studio classes. Leader of
plein air workshops.
Frequent
demonstrator of watermedia techniques for art organizations.
Articles & Reviews: “An In Depth
Look at Perspective,” International Artist Magazine, June/July 2002. “Reinventing the Color Wheel,” International
Artist Magazine, Winter 2001/02. “Scraping with Credit Cards,” Watecolor
Magic Magazine, December, 2001. “Creativity in Disguise,”
The Artists’s Magazine, February 2001. “A Line on Perspective,” Watercolor
Magic, Fall 2000. “Advice From the Experts,” Watercolor Magazine, Fall 1998.
Solo Shows
Pura Vida, Graton Gallery, 2004
Strange Icons, Graton Gallery, 2003
Oil & Water, Graton Gallery, 2003
Bella Italia, Graton Gallery, September
2002
Journey, Franklin Art, Santa Rosa, May
2002
Wine
Country Harvest, Hop Kiln Gallery, Healdsburg, CA, December 2001
Marine
Reflections, UpFront Gallery, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, March, 2001
Aqua Areas 2004,
Santa Rosa
Scapes,
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, December, 2001
Aqua
Areas 2002, Santa Rosa
International
Watermedia Twelve, Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, Louise Cadillac juror,
February 2001
Vanishing
Landmarks, 3 artist show, Quicksilver Gallery, Sebastopol, CA, February 2001
Land
Trust Heritage Invitational, Mendocino Art Center, 2000
Aqua
Areas 2001, Watercolor Artists of Sonoma County, Jerry Stitt juror
Water
Media Impressions, 2 artist show, Wolfard Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 2000
The
TREE, Quicksilver Gallery, Sebastopol, CA 2000
Inside/Outside,
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Roy Deforest juror, 2000
Plein
Air Scenes, Gallery One, Petaluma, CA, 2000
Fall
Invitational Show, Gualala Art Center, 1999
Aqua
Areas 2000, Watercolor Artists of Sonoma County, Santa rosa, CA, 1999
Spring
Scenes, Gallery One, Petaluma, CA, 1999
Water
Show, Sebastopol Art Center, Michael Hayden juror, 1999
International
Show, Watercolor Art Society – Houston, M. Schlicting juror, 1999
National
Watermedia Show, North Valley Art League, Redding, CA, Stephen Quiller juror,
1997
Third Place,
Aqua Areas 2001
Merit
Awards, Sebastopol Art Center, 1999, 2001
Winsor
& Newton Painting Award, Watercolor Artists of Sonoma County, 1999
Honorable
Mention, Watecolor Artists of Sonoma County, 1998
Best
of Show, Apple Blossom Fair, Jack Stuppins juror, 1998
Honorable
Mention, Marin Watercolor Society, 1996
Most of my paintings are plein air landscapes, begun and
completed to about the 80% stage outdoors. I like to exaggerate the topology of
the landscape and impose creative color schemes. I’m particularly interested in
energy--the energy that you sometimes sense underlying an apparently placid
pastoral scene. Sometimes I use spiral, triangular, or opposed diagonal
compositions to suggest the geological thrust of mountains, the undulation of
hills, the swirl of wind and the rhythmic surge of waves.
I
think a lot about composition--ways to go beyond the usual discussion of center
of interest, foreground and background, line/color/value contrast, and so on. I
like it best when I can get a painting to work as an energy pump, building up
an almost hydraulic pressure in the viewer as the composition takes the eye
around and around the picture.
On the other hand, I’m not so taken with
questions of composition that I’m willing to abstract the scene beyond
recognition. I like a painting that looks like something, that uses paint in
two dimensions to describe how light plays across three dimensions in the so
called "real world."
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