In this colourful minimalist composition Pat Service has rendered an urban landscape but the focal point is a single small orange-red house. The house sits in the center of the painting in a field of pink. To the right the outline of a gray-green, navy, and pink apartment building towers above the house. The pavement is also pink; the curbs contrasting red and bright yellow lines.
Is this a social comment on encroaching urban development?

“The simple layout and near-abstraction allows me to set up unusual colour juxtapositions. Using glazes and layering the paint over and over again, I seek an intense colour experience.” Pat Service

She acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of B.C. and later studied art at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Service’s work is held in private collections in North America, Britain, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.