Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Painting: Divinity, by Patti Agapi
Patti Agapi
Visual Artist, Ontario, Canada
Web site: Mad with Rapture Studio
Art available here.
Patti Agapi is a Canadian mixed media and collage artist who has exhibited and sold paintings since 2007. She works in an ever-adapting abstract style on canvas, paper, masonite and wood. Her mediums include acrylic and enamel paints, various found and vintage papers, pencil, metal leaf, plaster, metal and fabric.
She practices a daily drawing ritual and series (& posts to Twitter). These mostly reflect portraits, gestures from her everyday life and her family, while occasionally reaching off into an abstract strand.
Divinity is part of her continuing series of miniature tile paintings (standard measure of 5″ x 5″ on masonite board) in mixed media & collage. These vary in medium from textured painted plaster to collage. Her thoughts on them are purely aesthetic – working towards various interesting appearances and feelings.
Themes of her recent works all resolve to some extent around the concept of ‘perception‘ with each of her works an echo of her personal perceptions - recordings of the often obsessive internal paradoxes that haunt her – the little and big questions, each wave of thought accumulating in subtle layers of ideas and epiphanies.
Her memory collages stem from her fascination with each individual’s perception of past events – its often amnesiac quality, and the liberties in which a personal narrative may be rewritten.
Her blog features her creative endeavors – abstract paintings, drawings, collage art, photography and other inspirations, as well as occasional musings about Life.
[artwork image copyright: Patti Agapi]
