Featured Artist: Patrick Willett

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Mar 22nd 2008, 11:26am By buffalorising

Willet started painting and sketching as a child, and was especially drawn to nature and portraiture.

"Creating art is very therapeutic for me, my work involves the healing and renewing aspects of nature as well as the sense of place that we all share. I am especially fascinated with the reclaiming by nature of the materials that we choose to build with," he said. "Where I live in the Northeastern United States, there are many hulking, rusting monuments to another age that are being taken back by a force that never rests."

Willett's paintings--landscapes for the most part--are executed primarily in watercolor, and based on his surroundings, near and far.

Western New York, especially permeates the work with a sense of place.

Patrick's body of work can be seen, here, on his website.

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