Patrick Gorman Pettis' Blog

Solarium made from Caramelized Sugar  Inspiration can come from anywhere, when you're open to being inspired  . . . and even sometimes when you're not. I was looking closely at the veins in my plants and thought how fantastic these small singular pieces are on this side and that. Each consisting of their own individual cells each performing a function but the plant itself is as a whole an entirely greater creature. The sum is greater than its individual parts. How much like life is that. "One" from the 'Mosaic Series of 2014' by Patrick Gorman Pettis Each of us carry within us as many molecules as there are stars in the sky and more than an estimated ten trillion little cells in our bodies which we are for the most part very directly in charge of and affect. But more than that what of our moments, our experiences and actions, our deeds. Within the sum of our lives there are facets; memories and preferences, who we are, what we did, ...

 The heart can be moved by virtually anything if it is aware of it. Easily we are surrounded by the most magnificent of dynamic beauty in our own bodies and back yards ranging from the sub-atomic to the planets and stars themselves. The trick is to simply become aware and acknowledge that beauty then just allow ourselves a moment to be moved by it. Admittedly I don't understand people who claim they're never curious, to me its impossible not to be interested if not distracted by one thing or another. I see the world differently I suppose, I'm just so fond of life, which in part is why I'm so fond of the saying  ' Totus res decorus' which is Latin for 'All things Beautiful'. I think life can be quite beautiful and I celebrate the quality of life, its so very brief and rare after all. Its easy to feel this way, we don't need millions of dollars to take a moment and be able to appreciate something attractive or well made. One of the most common qu...

 2012 Internationally sold Angelic Series copyright PGPFINEART  I am an artist, a master investor of my life's energy my time my caring of which there is only a finite amount a blip in the sea of all there is. Knowing this, it is in my very nature to be visionary. To hope and see things in all of their beauty with all of their potential realized.   2012 Internationally sold Angelic Series copyright PGPFINEART   I am a seer of sorts, concise coordinator, an instinctively precise planner - for the placement of each single stroke whether seen or unseen and in its order there is a much greater piece to which it is a part and without it, it is incomplete.   2012 Internationally sold Angelic Series copyright PGPFINEART   I am an awareness gifted by holy, a raging welling dissatisfied passion to be reckoned with for without that soul fire my eyes are dimmed and my hands sluggish, my heart grows numb and the tools of my work dul...

From time to time, even when we don't really know it, we all call on Angels. It is simply a basic force of creation to assure us that everything is simply ok . We humans being human can get so very busy we sometimes end up the last ones on our "to do" list. And sometimes we end up so far down that list we get lost. In my single experience, and in my simple understanding, it isn't really fair of me to treat something so special so poorly. However, I also understand that everything happens for a reason and that the reason exists before that specific "thing" did to fulfill it, me included lol . Admittedly I am not always at the top of my own to do list, but that's why I have a special reminder by the name of Annael , I digress. Anyway, it happens in nature all the time. Once the apple peel oxides it creates a simple wax at it's skin which when heated turns into an oil that is really quite popular in candles and is extremely fragrant . Added to willow...

" All that we spirits desire, we spirits attain and so if it were an eye for an eye the whole world would be blind, know then too that a work of art is a step from what is "so obvious" and well known by the wise toward what is Arcane and concealed. Forget not that the very Earth delights in the feel your of bare feet, as does the wind love to play with your hair. For it is known also by the wise that Love knows not it's own depth until those hours of separation . And a little knowledge that produces even the smallest of action is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle" - Kahill Gibran This Thanksgiving I challenge each of you to stand up at your tables and be grateful because none of us deserve anything and we have everything and at least more than someone else, I dare you to feel grateful and to announce and express gratuity in your own ways even if it just means looking the next person in the eye and saying, " Thank You ". Now le...

" . . . . with eyes closed I could understand something that perhaps it is not me but the things that need me that provides me with the power to move and go, and I understood then that, basically, if it (anything really) was to be it was up to me and that I needed to not do it alone but to draw all of the strength of all of those connections and become an adult and simply knowing that was enough, so after some silly fit and medium term discomfort quietly I went and now I am here and it is really quite beautiful where I am today, this moment and right now. I thank the best and beyond of me for that each day, I am grateful but know myself well enough now and after all of this "growing up" to state that I am still not done yet. There's always plenty to do, but even more than that I find myself interested and actually quite passionate about people's lives. Lets just say I'm alive, smart, with a healthy curiosity - I have my druthers about me young man, now pour...

"You mean each breath we take there is enough power to fuel a light bulb? Can you imagine if we were to run to something at the same time?! Holy Crap." - Kaityn A. Marlboro Mass, age 11 Zephreil by Patrick Gorman Pettis 20 inches in height by 16 inches in length on pine framed cotton in natural inks stains and dyes valued at 1,727 USD by the Filopoly Board of Fine Arts What happens to us when it seems as though the world we know and the one we wanted has left us behind? We cope or suffer or both and either live or die from it. And there is no testament to strength to either simply example as to how and why the rest we can choose to keep private or share. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIDt97zQgY The Angel Zephreil was once known as the Angelic force " ZAPHREIL " allowed it to serve as primary spy on behalf of the Name's into the Lucifer's very organized in dependant curiosities . This creative force could change its nature and walk into the dark side...

- "Uriel" by Patrick Gorman Pettis 36"h x 24"l on framed cotton canvas completed 07/2008 in natural medium as part of the 2008 Angelic Series The Angel Uriel assists us to convert our greatest disappointments into the source of our grandest triumphs if we are strong enough and open enough to let it happen. Have you ever been so disarmed by someone else's actions that you hurt as though you were a child being beaten by a Leviathan? That feeling puts one in a place where you are powerless to stop it, you are that defenseless against it and you do not know when it will end. More so you fear to be forever changed by it. During those moments for some there is a hero known as the Arc Angel Uriel. My inspiration behind "Uriel" was one at first of a rather specific and terrific disappointment. If one can see it, it wears itself on the canvas that way at first. However through time with this force of nature it then became what my definition of strength was i...