Patricia Rozental ASGFA

Biography 

After school, where I gained a GCSE in Art, life took me into the Hotel Industry and then to bringing up my family. It was whilst living in Belgium in the early 2000’s, where I attended an expat art class, that my love of drawing and painting was rekindled.

On returning to the UK in 2004 I decided to do a Foundation Course in Fine Art at Amersham College in Buckinghamshire. From there I went onto take the Degree and graduated with a 1st Class BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Bucks New University in 2009.

I mainly draw and paint in my favoured medium of watercolour, though I also like to make monotypes and have done some etching.

Underpinning the imagery in my work is the idea that familiar, prosaic objects are always fascinating; I try to highlight the everyday and unremarkable to evoke something special and extraordinary.

I am fascinated by and really drawn to old and common place ‘stuff’, not necessarily antiques, but well worn, ordinary things anyone would recognise – anything from spoons, other cutlery and household equipment to tools and old oilcans. The tarnish, rust, dents and scratches on a metal, bone or wooden surface are the marks of a life well used, giving the object personality.

I enjoy grouping the objects or placing them in a single line in order to elevate them from a utilitarian purpose to a more decorative state.

I’m not really interested in painting background – it is the formal quality of each particular subject I am painting which fascinates me, particularly the reflective…

Working from life, I try to portray each object as an individual, stand-alone painting which makes the finished work a collection of homogenous small individual paintings.

I have exhibited widely, both locally and in national shows including:

The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, The Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA), The Society of Women Artists, The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, The ING Discerning Eye, The David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year in which I won the prize in the Original Print Category 2015, The Mall Galleries Buy Art On Line, Adrian Hill Fine Art at The Gallery Holt in Norfolk and Gallery Stamford in Lincolnshire