by Patrick | Mar 20, 2026 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
It started, as so many ideas do these days, with seeing something again in the garden. The fuchsia had grown tall against the flint wall. It was not just the progression of the scale of the floret, from tiny bud to full flower but also the progressions of colour and...
by Patrick | Feb 16, 2026 | art, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I use the camera a great deal. It replaces a sketchbook most of time, as it does for many artists, whilst I notice many photographers frequently use a small sketch book before taking their photographs. One tribe trained purely to see, maybe not as technically ‘deep’,...
by Patrick | Jan 29, 2026 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel, Uncategorized, wilderness
World War 2 hadn’t been over for two years yet. The British were still under a regime of rationing of food, clothing and fuel. The allocated rations were lower than they had been during World War 2 as supplies were diverted from Britain to feed starving peoples...
by Patrick | Jan 1, 2026 | art, art as language, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
Myths and legends form part of the culture of any nation. Norway only shook itself free of a union with Denmark and Sweden in 1814 and whilst much of its traditions are shared with those two Nordic nations, they have built on their own legends to foster and reinforce...
by Patrick | Nov 25, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
A chat with Amanda Lewis-Clements Patrick: Come on. I’ve been asking you for your working process for bloody ages and nothing has come. Do you blame your other half? Or is that just you cop out! Amanda: No, it’s not… (laughter) well because he said he...
by Patrick | Nov 21, 2025 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, photography, Uncategorized
Getting old is combatted in part by staying active and engaged both physically and mentally. Now women can run faster than me, the physical is represented by ambling with a camera wherever the fancy takes me. I have a target gleaned from a Chinese exercise site where...
by Patrick | Nov 3, 2025 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
How pleasant it is to wander a show labelled with Turner’s name and be one of only a dozen worshippers scattered across a number of beautifully lit, well presented (love the wall colour) galleries. From time to time the Towner shakes off the dross and presents us with...
by Patrick | Oct 24, 2025 | Lifestyle, painting, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I greet each day looking to the sky, blessing the dawn’s arrival. The cat is under my feet until I fill his food bowl after which he lets me meander outside to gaze at the firmament. On this morning the crescent moon shone brightly, the sun, its light bringing more...
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