patrick@espy.net          www.patrickespystudio.com

ARTIST STATEMENT   Painting in its most meaningful role is a search for sublime emotional and intellectual truths. Emotional truths that cause deep feelings of wonder or joy, angst or fear, love or anger and the infinite combinations of any emotions. Intellectual truths that cause even minor shifts in the paradigm of the viewer. The painter can be a channel that transfers power and meaning from the mysterious unknown places to human consciousness through these emotional states. For most people, the world that we live in satisfies all the curiosity that they might have with fairly shallow and temporary distractions. I find the most satisfaction in life when I am able to say something in a piece that is profound and is comprehended by just one viewer. Those are the times that I consider the work successful. field.  I am a member of the Academy of Screen Printing Technology with approximately forty members worldwide.