by Patrick | May 30, 2016 | art, art as language, painting, pastels
“I think therefore I am” 17th century philosopher Descartes doubted everything he said and began his treatise by saying that everything he knew was false. By denying everything, he can begin his argument free and clear of prejudice, with an open and innocent mind....
by Patrick | May 29, 2016 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
There is a proverb and a prayer withall, That we may not to three strange places fall; From Hull, from Hell, from Halifax, ’tis this, From all these three, Good Lord, deliver us. This praying proverb’s meaning to set down, Men do not wish deliverance from...
by Patrick | May 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing
Sussex has many pretty villages, and Ditchling shows how many are being spoiled by traffic and their identities being subsumed into the metropolitan urbanity. The centre of Ditchling is the traffic jammed mini-roundabout, and of the rural lifestyle that attracted...
by Patrick | May 13, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Remembrance
The writing was on the wall in Europe long before 1939. Hitler came to power in 1933, the culmination of a series of economic and political catastrophes across Europe. Churchill warned a complacent British political class (aren’t they always?) of the dangers on the...
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