Dimensions: support: 1060 x 1524 mm frame: 1233 x 1689 x 58 mm
Copyright: © Patrick George | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: Look at the texture—it’s so alive! I can almost smell the damp earth and the distant rain. Editor: Indeed. This is Patrick George’s "Hickbush," currently held at the Tate. Let's consider the materiality; the canvas support is quite large, about 106 by 152 centimeters. Curator: It feels bigger, somehow. The way he layers those greens and browns, almost like he's building the landscape from raw pigment... Editor: The brushstrokes denote a swift, almost casual application, yet the composition is rigorously constructed. One wonders what materials were available and accessible at that time. Curator: It's more than that—it’s a feeling. A memory of a place, not just a picture of it. I feel a bit lost, but in a good way. Editor: So, a testament to how art can capture not just form, but a sense of being. Curator: Exactly. I’m left wanting to see the real thing, to be inside that view.
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George studied at Edinburgh College of Art and at Camberwell School of Art, London under William Coldstream, who introduced him to the Euston Road School tradition of accurate rendering of the chosen object or scene. George adopted this as his working practice and his landscapes were painted in the open air in front of the motif, usually over a long period of time. George has lived and worked on land forming part of the Grove farm at Hickbush in Suffolk since 1961 and this is one of the first paintings he made of the landscape there. Gallery label, September 2004
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