Financial Times, September 18th and 19th 2010 by Jackie Wullschlager
Critics choice
This intimiste painter works in oil on a tempera base on gessoed panel, creating small, exquisitely composed, tactile canvases, expressive yet restrained and at once instantly arresting and demanding slow looking. Her strengths — flowers, often in cropped, close-up detail, and still-lifes such as the wonderfully toned “Blue Elastic and Beetroot” and “Carrots on Venetian Plaster” — are in this show more assured than ever; I am less persuaded by her narrative works and landscapes with figures, which risk whimsy. But in all Patrick paints there is airiness, sense of presence, and the freshness of an independent vision.
The Times, September 17th 2010 by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Top five galleries
1. Emily Patrick: Three Years’ Painting
Shining with light, shaded by darkness, a show of recent paintings by Emily Patrick captures the freshness and intensity of everyday life.
The Independent, September 17th 2010 by Jilly Cooper
Cultural Life
I saw a preview of Emily Patrick’s work for an exhibition in London next week. She is like the Wordsworth of the art world, painting the countryside in a delicate way. In my latest book ‘Jump’, the hero gave his mistress a painting by her.