."Patrick Farrell is a master of still-life painting, and because of it, he may be the state's most successful painter"                              

                            -  Debra Brehmer, Art Historian, "Milwaukee Magazine"

“. . . the gently realized, gracefully dimensional still lifes of Patrick Farrell . . . illusionistic detail that transforms meticulous craftsmanship into unabashed magic.”                    

                       - James M. Auer, Documentary Filmmaker & Art Critic

"His paintings are as electrifying and full of life as life itself."

            - Heidi Levy, Author - "Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects"

“Patrick Farrell is a superior craftsman as well as an imaginative artist. One don't often find both attributes combined in one individual, yet his work reveals the hand of a true original. . . . ”

                                                         - Michael Bonesteel, Art Critic

“As a self-taught Wisconsin wunderkind, Farrell has always rendered form and light with classical precision . . . His brand of realism has given us paintings of meticulous exactitude which wisely avoid becoming coldly analytical. There is indeed a ‘magic’ to Farrell's realism.”

                                   - Richard Waswo, Photographer and Art Critic

Patrick Farrell's oil paintings have received many accolades - including awards at the National Arts Club, New York City and the City of Milwaukee Art Commission's “Award of Excellence.” He has been the subject of a documentary on PBS, WMVS-TV, and in retrospective exhibitions at the Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, Madison, the Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin - amongst others.