by Patrick | May 26, 2014 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
As a boy the one poem I learned off by heart was John Masefield’s ‘Cargoes’. In particular one stanza stuck in my mind, a description of Channel traffic probably inspired by Masefield’s own days at sea, and first published in 1902. Dirty British coaster with a...
by Patrick | May 18, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
They can see that he’s just a fool As he never gives an answer But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning around” There is a large chunk of me in this Beatles song. As a service brat I was always moving,...
by Patrick | May 4, 2014 | art, Environment
As a child I was brought up in Cyprus. In retrospect this profoundly influenced my sense of colour. The colours of the Mediterranean are bleached out by the sun, dominated by Naples Yellow, Terracotta and the almost Cerulean blue of the Mediterranean sky. When the...
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