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實力派的寫生習作—— 英國職業畫家 Patrick Palmer 人體習作作品欣賞I am a professional artist exhibiting at a number of galleries across the UK including Belgravia Gallery in Mayfair and Box Galleries on the King's Road in London. I am also the life-drawing tutor at The Fire-Station Arts Centre in Windsor. I can do full-body commissions, please enquire for more information. I studied at Heatherley's School of Art in London and at The National College of Art and Design, Dublin. I have also been lucky enough to have been given extensive personal tuition by a close friend of Francis Bacon and an honorary fellow of The Royal College of Art. Whilst an element of realism is important, I try to move beyond artistic convention and avoid an image that is too predictable. Realism is not enough - what you take away and what you add to what you see are what transform a picture into art. I believe that the viewer wants to see a degree of draughtsmanship from an artist but they deserve more than this. I aspire to make my pictures touch people personally and to be considered works of beauty. I've recently been featured in a new book (available on Amazon) called 'Images of Women in Art'. I was also included in '10 of The Best Contemporary Portrait Artists' by One Fine Bid. One of my paintings is on the cover of a new book by India's poet Laureate - Musings of Miss Yellow. 「Patrick Palmer is a modern master of figurative art. His post-romantic nudes are not only exquisitely painted, but also dreamy, delicate and suggestive. They only hint at sensuality and evoke fantasy in the subtle and elegant manner that distinguishes art from pornography.」 Claudia Moscovici, Co-founder of postromanticism.com and art critic (「Romanticism and Post-romanticism」, Lexington Books, 2007).（註：轉載藝術家原文，請自行翻譯中文）