by Patrick | Jan 27, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
Attracted to the glamour of a career in art and design, new students would arrive in college for their Foundation course, in effect the first year of a four-year degree programme. There are (or were) over 46 disciplines offered under the banner of art and design...
by Patrick | Jan 14, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
The success of the art college system outside of the Universities was the cause of its fatal decline. The Universities could not compete with the creative glow the colleges gave off even at the local level, and the thriving Dip.A.D. degree system was putting to shame...
by Patrick | Jan 10, 2023 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Uncategorized
It is now over 50 years since I started at art college. It was also a different world as change has been and continues to be so fundamental to life and time passing. This is a little bit of a ‘look back in anger’ at the waste of opportunity led by generations of...
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