PATRICK OATES Ph.D.Patrick is an academically trained Figurative Fine Artist, Sculpturist
and Ceramicist, who produces works of a distinctly bold but naturalistic
style. He obtained his first degree specialising in Sculptural Method
and Process, studying under John Ridgeman ARCA leading to his doctoral
thesis on Post-Medieval Classification of the 17th Century North Devon
Slipware. As a historian he has concentrated upon the study of Ethnic
and Ancient Civilizations through the legacy of art and architecture,
being fortunate enough to visit the Middle East, China, and The Americas,
to discover their cultures. As an artist, he has developed an interest
in the human form with equal commitment, encapsulating the mystery and
dilemma between the Material Substances of Reality and the Psychology
of Pictoral Illusion, the very stuff of art and is as much a challenge
to the professional as well as the amateur. Patrick is ever mindful that
the teaching and demonstration of art should be enriching, enjoyable and
an inter-active process. His teaching is as much the delivery of art as
responding to the needs of all, always to the mutual benefit of their
personal creative development. His life drawings often have been described
as Critical. Dispassionate and Brutally Objective. However, technical
progress, creative satisfaction and an emergence of one’s own aesthetic
style will always be assured through his approach and inspiration. |