‘The most interesting part of creation’

Michael Patterson’s painting of a Parisian marketplace, at the Lily Pad Gallery in Newport, R.I.

The Roxbury, Conn.-based artist says:

“My work is focused on several objectives. Light, reflected light and its color effects, as well as the positive and negative shapes of equal importance, creating the graphic energy of my compositions. This sets the rhythm for a piece and influences where the viewer’s eye travels and at what pace. I include curved lines with straight, organic shapes and juxtaposed geometric shapes woven together, always conscious of the line created by any color masses converging. This line flows throughout, interrupted, yet continuous. Finally, the subject of my work most always includes the human figure wherever they may be -- city streets, markets, the beach, alone or in groups.  People are the most interesting part of creation."