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Pat ServicePeonies, Etc. - contemporary, floral still life, acrylic and oil on canvas1991
1991
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Admired for their lush beauty, the peony, an ancient flower is celebrated in this charming floral portrait by Pat Service. The Canadian artist is known for her intuitive sense of colour, pattern and form displayed in many different genres. In the 1990s Service chose to explore the art of painting a more traditional piece—the floral still life.
While the subject is classic, the colour palette is fresh and modern—a bouquet of different flowers—white peonies, purple hollyhocks, pink snapdragons, yellow mums and orange daisies arranged in a turquoise vase set against a patterned backdrop of turquoise and melon stripes.
“In the mid to late 90’s it seemed to be a time to slow down. It is common for me to go crazy for a while putting my own spin on things and then for a change I will try to calm down. With these pictures…I just wanted to do a very good painting in a more traditional manner.” Pat Service
Pat Service acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of B.C. and later studied art at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Service’s work is held in private collections in North America, Britain, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Pat Service is represented exclusively by the Oeno Gallery.
- Creator:Pat Service (Canadian)
- Creation Year:1991
- Dimensions:Height: 35.5 in (90.17 cm)Width: 47.5 in (120.65 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bloomfield, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU29114354102
Pat Service
Canadian artist Pat Service has been creating expressive, intensely colourful acrylic paintings for several decades. Born in the small coastal town of Port Alberni on
Vancouver Island, the beautiful, rugged shoreline, mountain vistas and ancient forests influenced both the subject and style of her work. She is known for her ability to capture the subtleties of light as they appear in the sky and water. Her brushstrokes also emulate the textures she observes in nature. Her use of thinned out paint allows for more transparency in colours and is a feature of her work. Service’s subjects are landscapes, florals, animals and still lifes. “Living close to nature for the first 12 years of my life indelibly imprinted on me an identity with trees fields, creeks, lakes, dirt, rocks, the sun, the sky, gardens, plants,
flowers, roads, and so on. Every time I start a new painting I am attempting to honour and seal that connection.”(Pat Service) Service attended the University of British Columbia where she acquired her Bachelor of Arts degree. Her husband’s career took her to Scotland where she attended classes at the Glasgow School of Art. Her early influences were the Scottish artists whose brushwork and colour choices were reminiscent of the popular Post-Impressionist French painters. Service also lived in Eastern Canada and Venezuela but in 1972, the family moved back to Vancouver, B.C. She continued to paint and attended several artist’s workshops in the U.S. and Canada. Following numerous experiences at the renowned Emma Lake Professional Artist Workshops in Saskatchewan, (where she met a community of abstract painters including Milly Ristvedt), Service began to change her approach to her work. Traditional landscapes gave way to a more liberated, abstract style in colour and form. “Working side by side with abstract artists, I began to envy their freedom to invent colour relationships and focus on mark making. The energy and excitement that comes with that kind of innovation, I wanted some of that. Up to then, I had worked closer to nature, not in a very detailed way but my work always had a clear reference to the real world. Now I began to liberate myself from that close connection and trust the casual references that can evoke a world of its own.” (Pat Service) She has exhibited widely throughout Canada and internationally. Service’s paintings are in numerous private, corporate collections and several museum collections around the world.
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