Emily Patrick

Emily Patrick (born October 4 1959) is an English figurative painter. She paints in oil and tempera on gesso on plywood. Her subjects are “quiet interiors and unshowy portraits or still life's yet with strong, highly detailed brushwork and unusual, rich coloration.”Fact|date=August 2007She grew up on a farm in Kent, England and has had no art school training but studied architecture at Cambridge University before becoming a painter.Patrick’s breakthrough came in 1986 when she had a solo exhibition at Agnew’s. This exhibition was the first in their history to sell out within three days and was the first of four successful shows that she had with them in 1989, 1992 and 1995.

In 1987, she was commissioned to paint Diana, Princess of Wales for the Royal Hampshire Regiment. In 1988 she exhibited as a finalist in the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Galleryand in 1989 she won the Carroll Foundation Award of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters for the most promising portrait by an artist under 30 years old.Since 1995 she has had a further four solo exhibitions (1997, 2000, 2002, 2005)in London and New York City to increasing critical acclaim. Her 2005 exhibition was labeled critic’s choice in The Times and “the best of what’s on” in The Financial Times.

Sources

* Financial Times Magazine April 16th 2005
* The Times April 23rd 2005
* Antiques Magazine 23rd April 2005
* The Sunday Times Magazine 17th April 2002
* The Evening Standard 21st March 2000
* The Sunday Telegraph Magazine October 19th 1997

External links

* [http://www.emilypatrick.com/comment.html Own website]
* [http://www.bridgemanart.com/about/collections.asp?type=dBridgeman%20Contemporary%20Artists&topic=588 Bridgeman Art Library]