Patty Boonstra (AKA Patty Robinson) creates a variety of images. The ones which particularly impress me are when she draws a human body with a diaphanous scarf draped over it, or a net tutu around it, and the viewer can see the body, through the scarf/tutu – I simply don’t know how she does that – how she achieves that effect – but I’m not an artist!
One example of this technique which I particularly admire was in the Pier Arts Centre Christmas Exhibition 2023
‘Ikon’
Which had me quietly singing to myself a song by Prince…’I’m not a woman, I’m not a man, I am something that you’ll never understand…’
https://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16616
Another approach to the human body which appealed strongly to me, which was in the Pier Arts Centre Christmas Exhibition 2024, was when Patty painted a view of the back of a human body and, as I saw it, it became a landscape – possibly with streams or rivers flowing to the sea
‘Muttering to the sea’
https://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17119
Patty is now preparing an exhibition of new works, which will be exhibited in the Loft Gallery, St. Margaret’s Hope from the 2nd to the 27th of June 2026.
This collection of work is called ‘Bodyscapes’, and the image which Patty has released of one of the works is another, though very different, example of a rear view, but this time divided into sections of strong colour – red, yellow, blue……black
I’m hoping to get to see these works too.
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