Patrick Wm. Connally
164 North San Pedro Road, No. C103
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 479-3504
E-mail: patrickwmconnally@comcast.net
Artist’s Statement
The work is exciting, bright, and thoughtful on many levels. Every picture tells a story and that is what the images have set out to do, tell a perspective on the world. The work is about comedies, histories, and tragedies.
There is no denying the West Coast origins of the work. Beautiful colors, freedom of movement through line, and the almost stained glass effects of the colors, all of which would be hard to reproduce. Values of craftsmanship, originality, and depth are intrinsic to the work.
Painting manipulates reality - if it is good — it creates its own reality. Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothco did this. Monet’s water lilies have the same prescience.
The Artist
Patrick, in 2004, showed slides of his work and moderated a panel of noted Bay Area artists with disabilities at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. The de Young Museum’s website has used his work on their home page. San Francisco’s Art and Healing Institute have sponsored his work. Supporters have purchased his work for thirty years through private showings and at fundraising events for non-profits throughout the western United States.
The artist is a noted Disability Rights Advocate who worked closely and coauthored articles with Ed Roberts, Father of Independent Living. He is associate producer of Disability and Senior News, KUSF 90.3 fm, San Francisco, where Patrick hosts a monthly show.
Technique
Paintings
The paintings are a juncture of Asian brushes using a plastic paint, acrylic in a layering of glazing. Glazing is a technique mostly used in oil painting. Every medium has its challenges. Acrylic paint has a very sharp edge because it dries so fast. Softening edges and shading are effects achieved from using many thin layers.
Prints
My drawings have a painterly quality that would be hard to reproduce. Computer images are a different medium. It is creating with light; at least on the computer screen. Computer drawing allows so many effects that getting your artistic individuality across can be lost. It is easier to change things, make variations, cut and paste things into the composition. The computer allows detail.
The print creation is in the Microsoft paint program that comes with the Windows program. Very rarely is Paintshop Pro 7 used. Paintshop is for the photo effects for printing. I mostly use the spray can tool in the paint program with a track ball.
Artist’s Vocabulary of Symbols
Basset Hounds
Hounds have been part of western humanities as long as art historians have stretched civilization. Western European hunting Goddesses had hounds that have red ears and are tri colored. The Celtic Lord of the Otherworld rode the night storms with his red eared, tri colored hounds to find lost souls to bring home. Many of the Celtic God's symbols survived with St. Hubert in the Dark Ages. In Western Art, from Tarot cards to Altarpieces, dogs represent loyalty, fidelity, and being prosperous enough to afford a dog.
Roses and Fish
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung opened a world of spiritual vocabulary without having to have formal religion or any religion at all. Roses are vaginas and fish are phalluses both spiritual and temporal.
Green men
In many medieval buildings, one of the architectural details is a man’s head with plants growing out of the ears, mouth and sometimes the nose; a very pagan symbol of growth? I think it is one of the oldest icons of male gods. My artistic ego is uncertain by Burning man using the green man as it theme this year.
Water
Liquids are the mind. Water when still it is contemplating, when moving it is thinking, when falling it is passion.
Bottles, Vases, and Eggs
These are containers of divine essence or life. In Science Fiction, they contain Ambassadors from races that live as energy.
Trees
The Ancient Indo-Europeans held some trees to be persons. A tree reaching the sky is going from the ground to a sky. A tree that has peaches or oranges, the reader is referenced back to Roses and Fishes.
Patrick Wm. Connally
164 North San Pedro Road, No. C103
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 479-3504
Email: patrickwmconnallyl@comcast.net
Pricing
Paintings are priced individually
Posters and Photographs of Paintings
à˜ 17 by 23 inches, Epson Luster Paper
$75 signed by the artist
à˜ 16 by 20 inches, Epson Luster Paper
$75 signed by the artist
à˜ 11 by 14 inches, Epson Luster Paper
$65 signed by the artist
à˜ 8 ½ by 11 inches, photo glossy paper
$15 signed by the artist
Please add $5 for mailing Poster size, $2 for the 8 ½ by 11
