Pat Bishop
Left: Helicopters, 2024, Textile, 33 x 26 inches; Top Right: Blue Foot #2, 2023, Textile, 16 x 20 inches. $325; Bottom Right: Black Skimmer and His Royal Entourage, 2022, Textile, 20 x 24 inches, $375.
Pat Bishop’s art reflects her goal to recreate times, places and things that have deep meaning for her. Textiles are her main form of expression, with strong tangents of added acrylic paint. Abstracting to a simpler form helps to focus on what is important to her. Too much realism and detail are avoided with the use of roughly cut fabrics. Nature is often a focus. Bishop spends some time most days outside walking near the woods or spending time on or near the water, investigating plants, trees, birds and other animals. She works intuitively though usually has an idea in mind of the outcome, but rarely a true final vision. She strives to achieve representation in the simplest form possible. Through her artwork she is trying to convey her feelings of the mystery, beauty and simplicity of nature and our need to value and care for it. Lately Bishop has been experimenting more with very abstract acrylic painting on cloth, completing with machine stitching.
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