American artist, Patrick Stull, spent his early career in the corporate worlds of technology and financial services. Upon reaching financial independence, Stull pursued more personal fulfillment and creative expression through the visual arts.

He has dedicated the last thirty plus years, being consumed and altered by this thing we call artistic expression.

Stull initially focused his artistic efforts on photography concentrating on the spiritual and psychological frameworks of women and social justice. His work has evolved further with artistic expression in clay, plaster, paint, ink drawings, and textiles. His large scale ink drawings, in the hundreds, and the creation of his latest exhibitions, To Awaken and Rise, have now absorbed most of his artistic interest.

Stull takes an intimate approach to his art, searching for what lies beneath the surface of his imagery and subjects. His more recent works have ventured into the abstract and surreal, using ink on cotton paper and exploring digital art – creating powerful and sensitive imagery that exposes the more organic aspects of being human. His art challenges the viewer to bear witness to life’s many social injustices.

Stull’s work is based in large scale digital photography accompanied by sculpture/body casts, composition art, digital art, painting, editorial illustration, ink compositions, poetry and prose. The culmination of Stull’s methods delivers artwork to the viewer that is stirring – emotionally charged.

Stull has created two major multi-media exhibitions in San Francisco. The largest of the two was 25,000 square feet with twenty feet walls made of sheer silk fabrics. He has published five books, with four more under development. Recently he is exploring the performing arts and has begun writing a play called To Fall in Love with Her.

Background

Stull is a self-taught artist who works in many artistic disciplines. Educated at San Diego State University with degrees in psychology, economics and philosophy in the 1970’s amidst the backdrop of the counter-culture revolution and the Vietnam War, shaping his social consciousness and political views. Stull comes from an Irish Catholic/German family, one of five children where work, discipline and religion took precedence over emotional expression of the self—a different kind of loving environment. Being a husband of thirty-plus years and father of two has taught him the power of kindness, love and commitment.