James Van Patten

1939 - 2025

For more than 40 years most of James Van Patten's work has dealt with landscape imagery.

When Van Patten started his career, he was drawing and painting the sky and the clouds. His following series were based on depictions of water and its reflection. And his most recent series is of reflections on sidewalks. These three different series reflect an analogy of the artist growing older.

When he was a young man, he had ‘his head in the clouds’. When he was middle-aged, he tried to notice constantly where he was and what moments of perception could look like in a painting, resulting on paintings reproducing the horizon at his eye level.

As he grew older his body has became ‘stopped and bent’ and looking at the horizon sometimes hurt his neck. The artist described that he was constantly looking down and being careful with his footing and this has shown him the world in a different way: less scenic and often gritty, but not ugly.

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