BERTON Vineyards will be the home to a various selection of artworks, with the feature of the show being Patrick Napoli’s creations.
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Mr Napoli has been painting for more than 20 years and his tutor, Sue Delves, has witnessed an ever expanding repertoire from her student.
“He's gone from quite abstract pieces to now where his work has become much more structured,” she said.
“A lot more flowers and also layers of dots and that's progressed over time and I believe that it's quite a nice style because it gives the paintings depth.
“The artwork that is here features a selection of work, some are landscapes, some are very abstract and there's also quite a lot of flowers in the work.
“His favourite colour is blue so as you may notice quite a few of his paintings feature the colour in one way or another.
“Most of his paintings are very uplifting as well, the colours and the subject matter are very uplifting and inspiring.”
The paintings will show the progression of Patrick’s work, as the pieces range from recent designs to ones completed years ago.
“Some of the paintings in this collection are about 5-6 years old while also incorporating some recent works as well, we've chosen these pieces really more the colour combination,” Ms Delves said.
“He's worked mainly in acrylic although there are a couple that are wax crayon, there's even one there that's a collage of tissue paper.
Like many artists he has days when his mood dictates the way he goes about his artwork, and for the most part it comes out for all to see on the canvas.
“Now Pat really enjoys painting but he enjoys it even more while painting to music so when he's got the radio on and a paintbrush in hand he's at his happiest,” Ms Delves said.
“Depending on his mood really depends on what he does, some days he'll work really quickly and get through a lot of paintings, other days he may take his time and not do very much at all.”
“You may notice some of the ones near the door there, the paintings don’t have a lot of action on it so it's fairly abstract and not a lot of structured brushstroke.”
“This is probably in contrast to the last couple of years where he's been much more innovative with his brush strokes and his colour, filling the whole canvas so that there's not much empty space.”
The exhibition will be run from 10am to 3pm on Saturday, April 4 and 11am to 4pm on Sunday, April 5.
The artwork will also be on show from now until the exhibition with all featured designs being available for purchase.
