Patricia Hartnett, Doves 1.

With any amount of luck, I have the numbers correct on allof Patricia's pieces.

I have to say that her work is my absolute favorite in the show this year.  Figure and bird, which is what is showing up more and more in my work.   I guess it was natural that I would be drawn to her paintings.

For me her weeks speaks of quiet and contemplation, of deep woods and silence, of moving with the process of life without a struggle.  It reminds me of my favorite interior "hiding" places where I go to sort things out with myself…and having a "familiar" along (the dove) can't hurt and is always good company.  There is a spaciousness here that invites exploration, and a reminder, somehow (perhaps the dove again?) that we are never truly alone.

And don't you just love that slight smile in "Doves 1?"  Mona Lisa mysterious…or maybe just the right subtlety of joy.

Patricia, like Tracey Clarke (the previous interviewee), is a woman of few words, and, again, that allows me lots of space to share her work with you.

Here's Patricia in her own words:

How many ArtOMatics have you done, and if more than 1, what keeps you coming back?

This is my second.   It's the most fun an artist can have in DC.

Where can one find you this year?  3^rd floor, space 14

How did you choose what to show at ArtOMatic? 

I choose some paintings that reflect my recent thoughts/ideas/experiences.

How long have you been making art?  Lifelong  

What do you do when/if you hit a slump? 

 I have hit slumps and I just take a break.  It seems like art springs out of my life when the time is right, so I just wait for it.

Who are your favorite artists and what inspiration  do you draw from them? Klimt, Magritte, too many more to mention.

Have you had a chance to look around ArtOMatic yet this year?  Do you have any instant favorites?  any returning favorites? 

I always love work of the glass school artists and others like Ben Tolman (Krissy Downing mentioned Ben in her interview, too, and I liked him a lot, so had a picture of his work to post with her interview.), Alex Zealand (my June 16 interview), Novie Trump, but art with humor instantly grabs me – there were quite a few exhibits that made me smile.

Where else can we see your work?  Right now just at Artomatic.

Anything else you'd like to add about yourself, your work, art in general?  That's it.

 

  Thought for the day:  Those who hate interpretation and say the myth is enough are right.  The interpretation is a darkening of the original light which shines in the myth itself. (Von Franz) There is no real end to methodological analysis [of myths], no hidden unity to be grasped once the breaking down process has been completed.  Themes can be split up ad infinitum.  Just when you think you have disentangled and separated them you realize that they are knitting together again in response to the operation of the unexpected affinities.  Consequently the unity of the myth is never more than tendential and projective… ( Mihn-ha)

 

 

"Doves 4"