Patrick Tyman

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Patrick creates works comparable to a highly decorated sari, where patterns repeat and echo within each composition. After spending his childhood years in India, it is unsurprising that Tyman’s works express a Southern-Asian aesthetic.

Since moving from England to New Zealand in 1996, he has also been influenced by the Pacific nation’s native flora, climate, light, and lifestyle, which have further developed his artistic ideas. New Zealand’s landscape features also integrate with his love of the Indian subcontinent. As a result, his paintings display the bright, rich colours of both the South Pacific and tropical India.

Tyman’s colours shimmer and gleam, creating vibrant expression. This is a subjective use of paint, where the object is subservient to expression, and the shrill warm-and-cool colour contrasts add to the allure. His paintings create a spontaneous expression of emotions, communicating feelings to the viewer.

Concerned with “purification”, these works acknowledge autonomy in painting. Individual expression is always the essence, with decorative impact, vigour and visual energy creating striking effects and heightened emotional intensity.