Artist Profile: Critic's Comments

“. . . 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

"Traditional in detail, contemporary in their simplicity, Patrick Farrell paintings are jewels in their own right. Farrell demonstrates his appreciation of the simple elegance of form through his exquisite rendering of detail with reflective surfaces and interplay of shadow and light. Beautifully painted, these paintings evoke the elegance of

nineteenth century still-lifes."

Tory Folliard Gallery

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 and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, Madison.

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