In 2011 I returned to the painting studio, invited by Gallery Route One to create an exhibit based on my interest in California’s endangered/threatened floristic habitats. With the help of the California Native Plant Society and National Park Service, I located endangered plants in coastal, Sierra Nevada, and Central Valley regions and painted them plein air. Those I could not visit I painted from photographs, and I quickly realised that vestiges of many endangered wildflowers exist in only a single photograph reproduced infinitely in digital space. To note the fragility of this “presence” I simplified internet images to 16 or 24 pixels and painted ghost portraits. This gallery is a sampling of the painting series, many now in private collections.
PattiTrimble__Endangered Showy Clover _2014_oil on linen_36x36%22
PattiTrimble__Endangered Showy Clover _2014_oil on linen_36x36%22
4 Patti Trimble_EndangeredShowyClover#4_2015_Oil on Linen_39x39%22
4 Patti Trimble_EndangeredShowyClover#4_2015_Oil on Linen_39x39%22
transitions 2015, MCF
transitions 2015, MCF
Patti Trimble, Endangered Cushenbury Buckwheat, oil on linen, 36×36″, 2012
Patti Trimble, Endangered Cushenbury Buckwheat, oil on linen, 36×36″, 2012
Patti Trimble, Endangered Buckwheat Two, 22×22″ OIl on Linen, 2012
Patti Trimble, Endangered Buckwheat Two, 22×22″ OIl on Linen, 2012
Patti Trimble, Endangered Owls Clover, Oil on Linen, 36×38″, 2012
Patti Trimble, Endangered Owls Clover, Oil on Linen, 36×38″, 2012
PattiTrimble_EndangeredTiburonLily_36x36%22_ooil on linen_2015
PattiTrimble_EndangeredTiburonLily_36x36%22_ooil on linen_2015
Patti Trimble, Leaving Eden Series #13, casein and digital print on paper, 11×14, 2012
Patti Trimble, Leaving Eden Series #13, casein and digital print on paper, 11×14, 2012
Patti Trimble, Tidestrom Lupine #2, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Tidestrom Lupine #2, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Desert Primrose, 6×6″, Oil on Board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Desert Primrose, 6×6″, Oil on Board, 2013
Endangered Series 2013 (view gallery)
Endangered Series 2013 (view gallery)
Patti Trimble, Endangered, Unidentified Seed, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered, Unidentified Seed, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered, Unidentified, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered, Unidentified, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Semaphore Grass, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Semaphore Grass, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered California Phlox, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered California Phlox, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Tidestrom Lupine, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Tidestrom Lupine, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Owls Clover, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Owls Clover, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Bottlebrush Grass, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Bottlebrush Grass, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Endangered Primrose Two, Oil on Linen, 22×22″2012
Patti Trimble, Endangered Primrose Two, Oil on Linen, 22×22″2012
Mendocino Gentian
Mendocino Gentian
Patti Trimble, Tiburon Mariposa Lily, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013
Patti Trimble, Tiburon Mariposa Lily, 6×6″, oil on board, 2013