Welcome to the Art of the Wild
About François Pattee
American born, François
Pattee has been living in Canada since 1950. He is an architectural
design graduate from Studio 437, in Québec City. He has
worked in many architectural offices in Québec. He also
worked for Famous Players, the cinematographical firm, in Toronto
where he was in charge of the design of various movie houses.
In 1975, he opened his own design office and specialized in advertising and architectural rendering. He also has been, for a period of two years, the artistic director of a small magazine called "Lacs et Forêts".
He is now devoting all his time to wildlife painting.
François Pattee has been commissioned to paint subjects for the Millenium Project : Canadian Wildlife : a Legacy to protect
Furthermore, collective exhibitions have taken François Pattee in Canada and the US.
ARTIST'S PHILOSOPHY
I do not
consider wild life art to be about animals necessarily but rather
about anything that is wild and natural, be it 
an
animal a landscape or even man. What I imply by wild includes
even those aspects of nature we find less appealing to our poetic
sense, namely the survival of the fittest and the clash of species
in their less savory interaction. The pervading wisdom of it all
remains my foremost inspiration and the key of my ongoing work.
I prefer
to render nature " as it is " even if I sometimes stretch
my definition of nature to include urban environment . Forgotten
or ruined buildings that we overlook everyday often form my painting's
background in order to give some life back to that fauna we do
not even notice anymore.
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