Patric Güntert
Painter & Draftsman 'Painting the Ordinary Slowly'
Patric Güntert is an older contemporary British painter and draughtsman, who predominently paints still lifes, which record ordinary domestic life through slow looking, classical composition, a deliberately limited palette and patient preperation, he also paints places and landscapes from time to time, and less often, but with the same slow intensity, people.
In one sentence he is a painter of ordinary things that have acquired a rich life through attention and time, be they an apple, a jug, a hill or a person, in the process he preserves a version of 20th/21st‑century European domesticity that’s already slipping away.
He paints in both oils and acrylics but does not mix the two, he is also a skilled draftsman capable of producing complex images, sometimes disturbing, in ink, graphite and crayon.
