A kaleidoscope of color - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet - in this horizontal abstract canvas merges action painting with a controlled placement for a harmonious composition. The poetry of Tombly meets the expression of Pollock in Pattinson's flurry of tachiste gestures. Pattinson's work may be seen in the broader context of the early 21st century resurgence of formalism and New Abstraction occurring in the US, Canada and internationally.

This work is accompanied by the recent catalog publication, SCOTT PATTINSON. In the book, Berlin art critic R.M. Vaughan is exuberant in his description:

"Pattinson plays with the emotional triggers of colors, mostly by slamming together unlikely, even decadent, contrasting hues and then encases those associations, the metonymic readings possible, with harsh, cutting and calligraphic blackish strokes. A Pattinson painting is a bird next built in the rafters of a disco, an ornamental garden behind bars, a severe steel tower struck by a hurricane, with all the pretty interior decor blown out and splayed across the strike zone."

Pattinson studied architecture and urban design at Oxford University and the University of Toronto. Since 2005, he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries across Canada, including a 2014 retrospective at Gallery Stratford. He is exclusively represented by the Oeno Gallery.

Complimentary shipping in Canada and continental USA (restrictions based on size/weight)