Patrick Burke is obviously greatly influenced by the work of the Late American Abstract Expressionist, Mark Rothko. Similar to Rothko’s characteristic paintings, Patrick Burke uses large rectangular bands of colour and layers of thin washes of different hues to create a pulsating often-hazy quality. However, where Rothko’s colour palette often produced the effect of calmness and contemplation, Burkes vivid, fresh spectrum seems to refresh the senses rather than calm them.