Patrick Grieve: Transit
My work is artificial window onto the landscape that has surrounded me for nearly 53 years. It is viewed through a lens which attempts to understand the passage of time and my place within this journey . The passing of time is marked by transitory colours, patterns, crops and textures of the changing seasons. As the months move and the seasons slip into the next, the reference points for the work move also. What I see around me is taken back to the studio and placed within my paintings. Within this space the works evolve at their own pace. It is a process as deeply ingrained in me as the rhythm of my own breathing.
Everything is silently moving and moving on. Places, people, events both joyous and sad visit us as the seasons slip again. We move, our home spins rhythmically and the passage of time washes over us as the light slowly fades from view.
- Patrick Grieve, 2022
Patrick Grieve, one of Tasmania’s most notable landscape painters is renowned for richly coloured renditions of his home on the North-West Coast. His textured and gestural works suggest his methodological toil—a ploughing, a planting, a flooding of seasonal change—a performative replication of the agricultural work that shapes and changes the earth that surrounds him. Fields of green rest over fields of ochre, scratched back or spread over and then cut across by the horizon, pressed down on by the brilliant blue sky.
Grieve’s works have an illusory abstract, perhaps even minimalist quality, but only to those who have not seen the Tasmanian wilderness open out on to the sprawling plains of its unique North-West region. Acutely aware of the fragility of the fertile and productive fields that dominate his visionary works, the artist addresses a fine balance that is both ecological and painterly through the severing horizons that dominate the picture plane. There is an undeniable tension in these works, as Grieve captures these not-so natural wonders vividly and with intuitive precision.
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Patrick GrieveJanuary. Sunshine on your skin and lovers, 2021oil on linen200 x 200 cm (stretcher size)Sold -
Patrick GrieveFebruary. Summer's day, stubble and flax field, 2021oil on linen122 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Patrick GrieveMarch. Days slowly closing in and music in a field, 2022oil on linen122 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Patrick GrieveApril. Thin sunshine and the last vestiges of summer warmth, 2022oil on linen200 x 200 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 12,800.00
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Patrick GrieveMay. Memories of my father., 2022oil on linen122 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Patrick GrieveJune. Evening light and hard work, 2021oil on linen122 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Patrick GrieveJuly. Receding days, reading and promises, 2022oil on linen200 x 200 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 12,800.00
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Patrick GrieveAugust. Wet winter, memories of spring flowers, 2022oil on linen122 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Patrick GrieveSeptember. Early spring planting, Flowerdale farmland, 2022oil on linen122 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Patrick GrieveOctober. Early spring day, 2021oil on linen200 x 200 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 12,800.00
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Patrick GrieveOctober. Warm clear spring day, Geales Road, 2021oil on linen200 x 200 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 12,800.00
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Patrick GrieveNovember. Cut grass, sunshine and wildflowers, 2022oil on linen122 x 122 cmSold
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Patrick GrieveDecember. Dry summer with cornflowers, 2021oil on linen122 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
