Pat Ellacott

Pat Ellacott - artist's profile

I have drawn and painted all my life, influenced by my mother, a highly talented, professional artist. It is only in more recent years that I have had time to concentrate more fully on art, graduating in Fine Art at Lancaster University in 2005.

Pat Ellacott paintingI work with a wide variety of media and materials, my preferred discipline being drawing. I love the immediacy and direct contact of it. My aim, in all my work, is to capture an essence rather than a photographic likeness. The hold of the head may characterise a person more forcefully than the facial features. Likewise, my larger, more abstract works are drawn from life, often from unremarkable objects in which I see an essential beauty. By playing with scale, space and materials, I can reveal this beauty.

I like to experiment with materials and let them do some of the work. I use pencil, pen and wash, crayons, graphite, pastel, acrylic, inks, pigment, linseed oil, collage and other textures, building up, polishing and erasing the surface.

My work is diverse: in 2003 I was Artist-in-Residence at the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester, my degree dealt with issues of old age, and I am currently focusing on the cow. I am also working on a series of large insect drawings. Alongside this, I regularly draw from life.

My past exhibitions have included:

  • 2007 - Waterbridge Gallery, Bacup
  • 2007 - Maiden Bridge Gallery, Tatham, Near Lancaster. Northern artists with self portraits
  • 2007 - The Art Room, Garstang. New gallery opening
  • 2007 - Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
  • 2007 - Arteria/Gallery 23, Lancaster
  • 2006 - Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington
  • 2006 - Maiden Bridge Gallery, Tatham, Lancaster
  • 2006 - Display at Laneside farm, Waddington (Jersey Cattle Society Open Day)
  • 2006 - April, 'Moss' Gallery, Longridge2005 Waddington Arms, Nr Clitheroe
  • 2005 - Peter Scott Gallery
  • 2005 - Lancaster University
  • 2005 - Atkinson Gallery, Southport
  • 2004 - BBC, Manchester
  • 2004 - Samlesbury Hall, Blackburn
  • 2003 - Artist-in-Residence BBC Philharmonic, Manchester
  • 2002 - Lewis Textile Museum, Blackburn

Future Exhibitions

  • March 2008 - Waterbridge Gallery Bacup
  • May 2008 - Maiden Bridge, Tatham, Near Lancaster - Lunesdale Studio Trail
  • July / August 2008 - Yorkshire Dales National Park, Yoredale, Bainbridge
  • November 2008 - Cedar Farm Christmas Exhibition, Mawdesley, Lancs.

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