Studio Avant
by Neil Patrick
Quiet, considered paintings of tide flats and old orchards, and a few limited prints of them. Each available work can be bought from its page.
Low Tide, Morning, 2024$2,400.00
Painted over three weeks on the flats at first light, when the sand is still wet and the sky sits in it like a second picture.
Tide Line, 2025$400.00
A small study of the line the water leaves behind.
Orchard Light I, 2025$3,200.00
Late sun through bare branches, long shadows laid across the grass.
Salt Flats at Dusk, 2023Sold
A wide view across the flats after the water has gone, with the last warm light caught in the salt.
Windfall, 2024Sold
A small panel of fruit left on the ground at the foot of one old tree.
Grey Room, 2022
An interior with the curtains half drawn and nobody in it.
Orchard Light II, 2025Sold
The companion to the first large orchard canvas, painted a little later in the day, when the light turns orange and the shadows reach the…
I paint what is left once the noise of a place has settled: the line a tide leaves on sand, the way light rests in an old orchard in the late afternoon. The paintings are slow and built in thin layers of oil, and I stop when the picture goes quiet.
Most of the work begins outdoors, with a notebook and a few small studies made on the spot. Back in the studio those studies are set aside, and I paint from memory of how the place felt rather than how it looked.
Two series run through the work at the moment: Low Tide, made on the flats near the studio, and Orchard Light, a single autumn spent in one old orchard. (Sample wording; the owner replaces it in the owner area.)
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