Author: Patricia Van Lubeck

Patricia’s latest series pinpoints familiar human characteristics and paints them as refreshingly positive statements of individualism. Her series of landscapes are though-provoking metaphors personifying the endless roles we all inhabit throughout life. Trees are painted as symbols to represent particular characteristics. Patricia believes that the universality of the subject -together with the story of each painting- will prompt the viewer to identify fragments of their own selves (or fragments of their own experiences) in her work.

Panorama

… I moved the furniture to the side of the room and found a way to hang the parts of a ‘sixteentych’.
The diameter is 3 meter. Or the length of all the canvasses together is 10 meter.

Pantone colours

Today I received something in the mail I wanted to own by myself for ages. I always found it a kind of ‘tool’ not intended for me. I stole a few of them …

Art Revolution Taipei

One of the rooms in the temple

Joining the Art Revolution in Taipei was a real milestone in my career! The decision to be at the fair in real person was even better. It was all one great learning course!

Buying art from fellow artists

wooden sculpture

When we left the exhibition hall we bumped onto an artist who was busy making sculptures with a chainsaw. One sculpture took him a few days to create and they are about six feet tall.

Italia meets New Zealand

Today I received his part in my letterbox and I was over the moon. Beside a beautiful bright tempera work, he also added a book brimmed full of other small paintings of weird animals in marvellous colors.

Croatian article

Sometimes people write such beautiful things about me. I’m fallen silent by these nice words.

The cloud picker

wolkenplukker

There was quite a controversy about one of the entrants because his work was a portrait of a murderer.

A TooHot painting

The PAL design contest got a funny afterbirth 😀
The organisator of the contest asked me to create a painting in commission, as a tribute to this event.

Retroactively inspired

Normally; first there is my painting … and then Mother Earth imitates me with a pale shadow of my created treasures. That’s how it happens all the time!

Notes for every separate painting

I always have difficulties to re-connect with the painting after it have been in rest for weeks. Every time it seems I need hours or days before I know how to work further on it, like an interrupted conversation. Most of the times my first attempts are quite pointless too.

Children’s drawings from the seventies

22 July 2009 When I was scanning some old pictures, I found a photo of my Mum.  Behind the head of the boy I caught sight of a familiar looking drawing pinned to the wall. I knèw I still had this particular drawing somewhere in the few boxes I lug with me through my life […]

On my easel now

If the berries are left to weather, the lampoon turns into this wonderful delicate gauze allowing a good peek at the berry itself. I used this visual effect in a slightly different form.

Alien invasion

… My next thought was that I had stumbled across some freshly landed aliens ready to roll their way into the world…..

My first time for money

… This local bar was run by a couple and their adult son. With that son, one afternoon I went to his apartment. He would give me 250 euro in advance of the job.

TooHoT made it to stores worldwide

The organisation was delighted. Recently they ask me permission to reproduce them and today I got the results in 5 colors. Don’t they look awesome?