cat 8

Oil · 2026-09

cat 8, 2026 — oil painting by Ray Patrick

palm trees, Pop art, Fashion, Oil

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Subject

Palms in silhouette against a scored red ground, their crowns along the upper half and their trunks dropping through an open field.

Composition

The crowns are set at staggered heights across the width and the trunks fall as near-parallel lines beneath them. There is no ground plane and no sky; the field is all there is.

Palette

Crimson, vermilion and oxblood through the ground, deepening at the edges. The palms are a flat near-black.

Handling

The ground is scrubbed in broad passes with heavy incised marks scored into it, which show as paler scratches. The palms are flat opaque shapes with their fronds struck out from a single centre.

Medium and support

Oil, photographed as a page of a portfolio book rather than as the object itself.

Signature

No signature visible within the painted area.