How Dallas Remade a Famous British Artist - D Magazine
In a corner of the studio, two of Patterson’s vintage motorcycles sat emptied of their oil and gasoline. At the time, he was re-creating one of his own paintings, copying it stroke for stroke from a photograph, and the process was driving him mad. A large canvas, 10 feet wide and 7 feet tall, sat on a huge easel. The rider was a scaled-up image of a plastic figurine covered with globs of multicolored paint. From across the room, the painting looked like a photograph but for the unfinished sections, which revealed an undercoat of monochromatic taupe. Patterson stands 5-foot-6, and today, at 51, he can come across as a bit of an imp when he’s full of energy and chattering away, flashing a puckish grin paired with a Peter Pan glint in his green eyes. He looked weary, the crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes running deep, his posture stiff, in part the result of an autoimmune disease that has wrecked his spine. That Patterson could even attempt to remake such a large, technically complex painting was a testament to his abilities. Working from a photograph, he can manipulate oil paint so that his canvas becomes a perfect reflection of it. He uses this hyper-styled trompe-l’œil to appropriate images from advertising and films—girls in bikinis or blond men on motorcycles,... Source: www.dmagazine.com
