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Patrick Haughton
Recent
work,
while
still
containing
reflections
on
landscape,
has
shifted
its
emphasis
towards
wider
concerns
regarding
a
sense
of
time
and
place.
I
am
fascinated
by
ways
in
which
the
transitory
nature
of
existence
is
demonstrated;
by
traces
of
former
human
social
and
physical
activity
and
natural
forces acting on the external world.
Works
evolve
in
the
process
of
making,
of
constructing
and
assembling,
drawing,
painting,
on
canvas,
board
or
paper.
I
constantly
search
for
a
visual
language
which
will
communicate
my
perceptions
of
place
and
time,
occasionally
juxtaposing
fragments
of
found
objects
and
documents
with
graphic
media,
thus
introducing
elements of reality into the work.
Influences
on
my
painting
are
many.
Visual
artists
such
as
Picasso,
Braque,
Nicholson
and
Hepworth,
are
clearly
important
to
me,
as
is
the
experience
of
regular
visits
to
France
and
Germany.
But
the
music
played
in
the
studio
-
anything
from
the
baroque
to
the
20
th
century
composers
and
contemporary
jazz
music,
has
it’s
own
effect
on
the
structure
and
content
of
work.
In
the
final
analysis
I
would
hope
that
the
work
is
an
honest
reflection
of my experience of life.
Penryn
