About Me
Patrick Joosten is a French contemporary abstract artist.
Practice
His work develops through processes of construction, disruption and erasure. Painting is approached as a field of transformation where gesture, material and structure operate in continuous dialogue.
The studio process is guided by experimentation and controlled unpredictability.
Artistic Language
His practice is rooted in gestural abstraction and material exploration. Fragmentation, chromatic tension, spatial modulation and layered surfaces define a visual language focused on perception and structural complexity rather than representation.
Selected Works
Clockwork Orange - 2025 - 95x95 cm
When Colors Forget their Names - 2026 - 95x95 cm
Ethereal - 2024 - 140x90 cm
Myriad - 2022 - 160x100 cm
Selected recognition
- Leonardo da Vinci International Prize
- Circle Foundation Masterful Mind Award
- ARTAVITA Finalist Artist of the Year
Context
Largely self-taught, his practice developed independently from academic frameworks, allowing a personal approach to abstraction and material expression.
His work is situated within contemporary abstract painting and continues to evolve through experimentation and refinement of form.
Closing line
An ongoing exploration of abstraction as process, tension and transformation.