by Patrick | Dec 28, 2013 | art, drawing, Lifestyle, painting
English artist Bernard Cohen talked of the balance between personal myth making and ritual. Myth making occurs through drawing and preparatory works. Here an artist indulges in activities that clarify the vision he is pursuing, that set up potentials for the...
by Patrick | Dec 21, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle
Many people look AT the world rather than looking INTO it. I suggested previously that “many have no visual memory because most people simply have never been taught to look”. When my father was teaching me to use the wood/graphite interface we owned no...
by Patrick | Dec 14, 2013 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Dad taught me to see, taught me to draw. He had an artistic side that rarely found any outlet. He did a little marquetry but enjoyed teaching me how to image a ship’s bow looming up, how to image a Spitfire wing growing realistically off a fuselage. He made me...
by Patrick | Dec 8, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle
I was brought up a ‘service brat’. When your father is in the services you move every three years or so. But you are not alone in this, all the kids in the married quarters around you have dads whose postings rarely coincide with yours. So you make...
by Patrick | Dec 1, 2013 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
The day started with cancellations. #Southern, our local rail company, seems incapable of running a railway properly. The morning was despoiled by cancellations on our branch line, and I had a call from OH to rescue her day trip to London. Dashing to the station I ran...
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