Fleur Patrick

Fleur Patrick is a contemporary painter who works with and adapts found images, sourced from a wide range of mediated origins. She selects imagery which is non-specific, and yet strangely familiar to her, becoming catalysts for the uncanny, reflecting her own experiences of displacement and alienation.   

The work explores tensions between the painting’s image and surface, each serving to suppress the other. Oil paint is applied in thin, translucent glazes of colour and then, like palimpsests, wiped away to reveal previous layers. The clarity of the image can seem to oscillate, materialising briefly, before dissolving back into more abstract form. This precarious balance resists our attempts to fully locate, enter and navigate the space of the image, as though shrouded by a veil of mysterious uncertainty; instead leaving space for the viewer to project into the painting. 

Patrick graduated with a 1st class Fine Art degree before completing a Painting MA at the Royal College of Art in 2003. She 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. Fleur has recently exhibited with Irving gallery, Oxford, The Artist Room, London and Huddersfield Art Gallery. Her work is exhibited internationally and is included in numerous private collections

Available Works

Fixed In Place By Shadows, oil on canvas, 2023