Works °3 — PATRICK HICKEY

essays by Patrick Hickey

ISBN 978 0946641 154     32 pages (paperback)    20x15cm     24 illus

Patrick Hickey was an immensely talented and versatile artist in a variety of fields, including oil painting, watercolour, etching, lithography, printmaking and graphic design. This book follows the development of his style, his themes and series, from the early Stations of the Cross to the more recent Aesops Fables, with two essays written by the artist himself.

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Seeing a landscape, a rock with scabious growing on it, a wild hare, there is, in the painter, a kind of obsession, in some way, to possess at least part of it. Knowing how passing, how evanescent these things are, the only way for a painter to possess it is to paint it. But the next level is, to me, more important. You can achieve with a painting what you fail to do with your life – achieve stillness, beauty, truth, and, in some measure, immortality. But the most important level is when a painting is done by a painter as an act of thanksgiving, an act of praise, an acknowledgement of the gift of life, for which he is in debt, to God presumably, a bit too, to the human race and nature and society and his parents and so on.

— Patrick Hickey