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Reflectioncoloured pencil on paper116 cm × 83 cm
Biography
Patsy Whiting was born in Bolton and studied in Loughborough and Manchester. After a period of working as an artist, whilst bringing up a family, she began a career in teaching art. This eventually led, through specialist training, to an Educational Audiology post in Bolton Sensory Service, teaching deaf children aged 3-18.
Patsy continued to produce art throughout her career in deaf education, working in a variety of media, including print, sculpture and painting. During the course of her teaching she developed skills in visual presentation and digital animation which became her key expressive medium. However, a visit to the Picasso museum in Paris inspired her to begin drawing again in earnest and to leave teaching. She now has a studio in Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Artist's statement
Still lives and figures are drawn on a roughly textured pastel ground. The image is built up gradually in layers from detailed photographs, focussing on a small area at a time. It is the play of light which fascinates and challenges me. I love the process of taking away the black to make a form appear out of the shadow.
Exhibitions
2018 Pastel Society Open Exhibition 2018, Mall Galleries London
2017 Rutland Open Art Exhibition, Rutland Museum, Oakham - Prize
2017 National Open Art Competition, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London and Pallant
House, Chichester - Prize
2017 New Light Exhibition, Bowes Museum, Durham
2017 United Society of Artists 94th Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery London
2017 Not the Royal Academy Exhibition, Llewellyn Alexander Gallery London
2017 156th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London
2017 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Open all Media Exhibition - Highly commended 2017 Pastel Society Open Exhibition 2017, Mall Galleries London - Visitors' Choice Award 2016 155th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London
2016 New Light Exhibition, Panter and Hall, London
2016 New Light Exhibition, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
2015 National Open Art Competition, Royal College of Art, London and Pallant House,
Chichester - Prize
2015 New Light Exhibition, Bowes Museum, Durham
2015 154th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London
2015 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition
2014 Derwent Art Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries London - Third Prize and UK Coloured
Pencil Society Award for Excellence
2014 153rd Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London - Jacksons
Visitors' Choice Award
2014 United Society of Artists Cork Street Open Exhibition, 28 Cork Street, London -
Strathmore Fine Art Paper Prize, Derwent Prize
2014 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition - Highly commended
2014 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Friends' Exhibition - Prize
2013 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Friends' Exhibition - Highly commended
2013 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition
2013 152nd Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London - Jacksons
Visitors' Choice Award - London Art Co UK Award
2013 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Open all Media Exhibition - Highly commended 2013 Open 24 Exhibition, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester
2012 Autumn exhibition Nottingham Society of Artists - First prize Holbrook Trust Awards 2012 151st Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London - Caron
Keating award
2012 Metamorphosis, ArtSpace Exhibition, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester 2012 Snap, South London Women Artists' Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2012 Gold, ArtSpace Exhibition, Loughborough Town Hall
2011 Midlands Open Exhibition, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
2011 Open 23 Exhibition, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester
2011 Nottingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition
2011 150th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London
2011 Nude, West End Gallery, Leicester
2011 Birdsong, ArtSpace at Charnwood Museum, Loughborough
2011 Recent Work, ArtSpace at Nottingham Society of Artists' Gallery
2011 Spring Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists
2011 Watercolours and Works on Paper Science Museum London
2010 Open 8 Catmose Gallery Oakham - Swans prize awarded
2010 National Open Art Competition Minerva Theatre Chichester
2010 Nottingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition
2010 Kathleen Marchant Awards Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists - prize awarded 2010 Contemporary Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists
2010 149th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London
2010 South London Women Artists at Bankside Gallery, London
2010 Passions and Influences, ArtSpace, Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery
2010 Spring Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists, prize awarded
2010 South London Women Artists at Dulwich Library Exhibition, London
2010 Affiliates Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists
2009 Small Pictures Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists
2009 Autumn Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists
2009 Contemporary Exhibition, Nottingham Society of Artists
2009 148th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London
2009 Make Space for ArtSpace, Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery
2009 Celebrating Women Artists, South London Women Artists, Dulwich Library London 2008 147th Annual Exhibition of Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London
2008 Works on paper, Open House Dulwich Festival London
2008 Art Space, The Bigger Picture, Charnwood Museum Loughborough
2008 Open 6 Catmose Gallery Oakham
2008 Derby City Open Exhibition, Derby City Museum and Art Gallery
2007 Bolton Open Art Exhibition, Bolton Art Gallery
“Demoiselles after Picasso”2007 by Patsy Whiting
“Demoiselles after Picasso”is a photograph of a nine piece hand printed relief print.
Origins
The inspiration for this work was Picasso's “Demoiselles D'Avignon”.
The initial pencil sketches were based on the three figures to the left in Picasso's painting but their positions were rearranged and more elaborate drapery used on the tallest figure.
Developing the form
Each figure was divided into three sections, head and shoulders, body and thighs and lower legs.
Nine A2 preparatory drawings were made for the print blocks.
Printing
Relief printing blocks were cut from board, the images transferred and the relief created with PVA glue using a palette knife.
Tonal variation was created by wiping off parts of the inked surface. As a result of the hand processing, the proofs differ somewhat. The work was printed using black linseed oil ink on Japanese Hosho paper.
Presentation of the work
The medium of print was chosen for the nature of the marks that are made on the paper. The original intention was to collage the nine prints together in a single composition however this idea changed and the individual identity of each print has been maintained. Each print measures 45cm x 58cm.
The space between the prints makes the women appear as they might through the panes of a window. The size of the framed image is 170cm x 210cm.
