'Silence Does Seldom Any Harm' by Fleur Patrick
'Silence Does Seldom Any Harm'
41 x 31 cm
Oil and Graphite on Arches Huile Paper
2025
£950
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Fleur was born in New Zealand in 1979 and emigrated to the UK as a child, leaving behind her home and family. This upheaval, combined with challenges faced as a neurodivergent woman, have left her with an acute sense of both geographical and social estrangement. The work draws from these disorienting experiences. She graduated with a 1st class Fine Art degree before completing a Painting MA at the Royal College of Art in 2003. Fleur has previously won the Zurich Contemporary Painting Prize, Amlin Painting Award, Desmond Preston Drawing Award and was a finalist of the Lexmark European Art Prize. In 2023, she was longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and shortlisted for the Jacksons Painting Prize. Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Show, A Room of One's Own at Irving Gallery, Oxford, Eccentric Spaces at The Artist Room, London and A Generous Space 3 at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
She is currently working towards a solo show with School Gallery, Folkestone. After living in South London for many years, she now lives and works in Nottinghamshire. Her work is included in numerous private collections. "It is important for me, as the maker, to maintain a degree of detachment from the spaces I depict. Experiencing the places in this way enables me to hold back my description of them; to say just enough but not too much. As a result, the paintings hangs in the balance between representation and abstraction, between image and surface, solidity and fluidity. They become a kind of disintegrating hallucination. These dichotomies enhance the uncertainties already present in the image, concerning the function, condition and location of the subject matter. I have come to understand that these tensions, along with the types of images I choose, reflect my dislocated sense of belonging and express my own anxieties as a neurodivergent artist. For me, the structural elements of the image provide necessary representational context in the form of a vaguely recognisable framework, within which the paint’s organic, material and happenstance properties can be allowed to disrupt and obscure. I think of it as a collaboration with the paint. I need to be present and responsive in order to allow the paint to behave this way. It is the balance between these unpredictable elements which keeps that dialogue alive."
'Silence Does Seldom Any Harm'
41 x 31 cm
Oil and Graphite on Arches Huile Paper
2025
£950
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Fleur was born in New Zealand in 1979 and emigrated to the UK as a child, leaving behind her home and family. This upheaval, combined with challenges faced as a neurodivergent woman, have left her with an acute sense of both geographical and social estrangement. The work draws from these disorienting experiences. She graduated with a 1st class Fine Art degree before completing a Painting MA at the Royal College of Art in 2003. Fleur has previously won the Zurich Contemporary Painting Prize, Amlin Painting Award, Desmond Preston Drawing Award and was a finalist of the Lexmark European Art Prize. In 2023, she was longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and shortlisted for the Jacksons Painting Prize. Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Show, A Room of One's Own at Irving Gallery, Oxford, Eccentric Spaces at The Artist Room, London and A Generous Space 3 at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
She is currently working towards a solo show with School Gallery, Folkestone. After living in South London for many years, she now lives and works in Nottinghamshire. Her work is included in numerous private collections. "It is important for me, as the maker, to maintain a degree of detachment from the spaces I depict. Experiencing the places in this way enables me to hold back my description of them; to say just enough but not too much. As a result, the paintings hangs in the balance between representation and abstraction, between image and surface, solidity and fluidity. They become a kind of disintegrating hallucination. These dichotomies enhance the uncertainties already present in the image, concerning the function, condition and location of the subject matter. I have come to understand that these tensions, along with the types of images I choose, reflect my dislocated sense of belonging and express my own anxieties as a neurodivergent artist. For me, the structural elements of the image provide necessary representational context in the form of a vaguely recognisable framework, within which the paint’s organic, material and happenstance properties can be allowed to disrupt and obscure. I think of it as a collaboration with the paint. I need to be present and responsive in order to allow the paint to behave this way. It is the balance between these unpredictable elements which keeps that dialogue alive."
'Silence Does Seldom Any Harm'
41 x 31 cm
Oil and Graphite on Arches Huile Paper
2025
£950
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Fleur was born in New Zealand in 1979 and emigrated to the UK as a child, leaving behind her home and family. This upheaval, combined with challenges faced as a neurodivergent woman, have left her with an acute sense of both geographical and social estrangement. The work draws from these disorienting experiences. She graduated with a 1st class Fine Art degree before completing a Painting MA at the Royal College of Art in 2003. Fleur has previously won the Zurich Contemporary Painting Prize, Amlin Painting Award, Desmond Preston Drawing Award and was a finalist of the Lexmark European Art Prize. In 2023, she was longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and shortlisted for the Jacksons Painting Prize. Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Show, A Room of One's Own at Irving Gallery, Oxford, Eccentric Spaces at The Artist Room, London and A Generous Space 3 at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
She is currently working towards a solo show with School Gallery, Folkestone. After living in South London for many years, she now lives and works in Nottinghamshire. Her work is included in numerous private collections. "It is important for me, as the maker, to maintain a degree of detachment from the spaces I depict. Experiencing the places in this way enables me to hold back my description of them; to say just enough but not too much. As a result, the paintings hangs in the balance between representation and abstraction, between image and surface, solidity and fluidity. They become a kind of disintegrating hallucination. These dichotomies enhance the uncertainties already present in the image, concerning the function, condition and location of the subject matter. I have come to understand that these tensions, along with the types of images I choose, reflect my dislocated sense of belonging and express my own anxieties as a neurodivergent artist. For me, the structural elements of the image provide necessary representational context in the form of a vaguely recognisable framework, within which the paint’s organic, material and happenstance properties can be allowed to disrupt and obscure. I think of it as a collaboration with the paint. I need to be present and responsive in order to allow the paint to behave this way. It is the balance between these unpredictable elements which keeps that dialogue alive."