Patrick Cashin artist was born in New York in 1965 to Irish parents, he returned to Ireland aged seven where he was raised and now lives and has his studio in Cork.
After completing his studies, Patrick spent the decade of his twenties living in Boston, London, and then Madrid, primarily in order to work and travel, but also to be able to study the work of the Old and Modern Masters in a direct and sustained way in the museums and galleries of those cities, which was a formative experience for the artist .
Since becoming a full-time artist in 1996, Patrick's work has been collected worldwide with the actor Pierce Brosnan and the Designer Louise Kennedy featuring among prominent collectors of his work.
"The sea and the coast are ongoing sources of inspiration for my artwork, as both theme, and motif.
I think the sea is in some respects one of the fundamental human experiences in life. On one level it is a place we relate to in terms of our direct experiences of it, but it is also as a place we relate to on other levels, in relation to recollection, the imaginative, and the symbolic. In my recent work, the place where land meets sea, and the built structures which evidence the human presence within the coastal terrain, are a theme I find to be of particular interest.
One manifestation of this involves the theme of the lighthouse, an iconic form in the landscape, which have a sense of mysterious presence and narrative entirely in their own right. In terms of each painting's development, every painting evolves somewhat differently, some emerging as being more descriptive of the sense of a place, its light or weather at a certain time of day, while other paintings tend to evolve into being more about a sense of atmosphere, thought or mood."