I believe that humans innately yearn for authentic experiences, for experiences which nurture and ground us, and which serve to support our spiritual development. And yet, in contemporary Western society, we have reached the point where we are absolutely inundated by messages which promote an insatiable desire for stimulation and instantaneous self-gratification gained through the amassing of material goods and singular investment. It is this unhealthy “white noise of life” that distracts us from focusing on the more meaningful aspects of being alive and which prevents us from appreciating something as simple (and powerful) as the silence of spaces between things.

This “raw-silence” is the energy I intend to capture through the act of painting. As tangible artifacts of emotion, passion and sensuality, my compositions strive to build engaging relationships between sensible proportions, layering of paint, and obtuse geometries; these elements reach out to each other, communicating within.

There is a life to each piece – a tension between control and chaos – each painting a manifestation of an interior, subconscious landscape where you feel a sense of things happening quickly around you…

Pattinson is represented at the Thielsen Gallery in London, Quartier Libre Galerie in Montréal, Oeno Gallery in Prince Edward County, Agnes Bugera Gallery in Edmonton, and Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary, Canada. He paints from his studio in Guelph, and Muskoka, ON.