Patrick Bremer is a British artist whose collage portraits are built from thousands of individually cut pieces of paper, assembled onto canvas or linen to create figures of remarkable depth and texture. Working predominantly in cut paper combined with acrylic, the technique demands extraordinary patience and precision, each fragment contributing to a surface that reads as unified and
painterly from a distance while revealing its intricate construction up close. His portraits carry a quiet, contemplative quality, the figure emerging from accumulation rather than from a single gesture, which gives them an unusual sense of presence and time.
He is a recipient of the De László Foundation Award for portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, one of the most prestigious recognitions in British portrait painting. His commercial clients have included the New Yorker, Der Spiegel, Google, Cadillac, and Caltech, among others, reflecting the range and esteem in which his work is held across both fine art and editorial contexts.
Born in Brighton in 1982, Bremer studied painting at Wimbledon College of Art in London. He lives and works in West Somerset on the edge of Exmoor, where his studio is open to visitors by appointment.
