Growing up, Patrick Bremer was surrounded by art and artists, so it made sense he would go on to carve a creative niche for himself. “I always loved painting and I grew up in a very artistic family, my father being a painter and art teacher,” he relayed in a piece for Artsy Shark. “I also remember being really influenced by seeing lots of the old Derek Riggs Iron Maiden album covers when I was little, as my sister was seeing a guy who was obsessed with them – the color and imagery in those was like nothing I’d ever seen before and has remained a pull to art ever since for me.”
Born in Brighton in 1982, Bremer studied painting at Wimbledon College of Art in London and is a recipient of the DeLazlo Foundation Award for his portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. But though he started out being a painter, after stumbling across collage art, his creative journey changed course. “I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he admits.
The circumstance being: he looked for a way of staying creative at home without destroying his house with paint. “I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up,” he recalls. “Since then they have been growing larger and more experimental, getting freer with the knife each time and trying to treat them in my mind as paintings or drawings.”
His artistic process now is a bit of a hybrid between portraiture, painting, and collage art. “The pictures work on the first level as a portrait, but then you can move closer to explore and read the information within it,” he says.
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