SHANGHAI.- LINSEED has announced that “Dusk”, Patrick H. Jones’ first solo presentation in Asia opened on November 12, 2022, at 21 Baoqing Road, and will end on December 4th, 2022. Embodied in this series of four equal- sized paintings, the artist’s reconciliation and regeneration of his personal encounters and emotions take form in the dense and staggering sceneries, animals, and humans, echoing the exchange of sentiments among different relations.




Resonating with the title “Dusk”, or the phenomenon of fading light, the series stems from the experience when one loses the capability of seeing the whole image that they were once adapted to, and at the same time becomes sensitive to the details in the near distance which appears sharp and clear as the perception deepens. Usually driven by his personal experience, Jones’ work of recent years carries a compelling tension torn by penetrating emotions. Unlike the elegiac gloom in his previous works, which were affected by the loss of a loved one, the new works in this series not only embody memories and introspection of the past, but also reveal the artist's insight into the vibrancy in the dusk.

The spontaneous and heavy brushstrokes rise and fall with the undulating shadows they form, bursting into a lingering dialogue with the delicate contours of animals and figures. The paint, like the flooding feelings, pours through the sharp lines cutting across each frame, where the depicted images welter. The fragmented, layered, and recomposed images and textures converse with the artist’s perception of the blooming and withering of life — sometimes in the form of vulnerable cracks, or frightened beasts that flock and escape, sometimes in the form of stereograms that captivate viewers with its dense compositions, where focuses of sight are lost.

Immersed in the chaos of such effusion and explosion of sentiments that one has to endure, the works attempt to reconcile with this outflow among the self, the close ones, and the crowds; like what poet and artist Mary Anne Radmacher said, a favourite quote of Jones’ father’s: “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” As the dusk comes and the night falls, it not only foreshadows the approach of darkness, but more significantly, anticipates the tranquil moment before the next dawn.