by Patrick | Aug 28, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, wilderness
“Julia Cole, from the Priory’s Wellbeing Centre in Southampton, spoke following warnings from charity Macmillan Cancer Support that 240,000 British people have mental health problems caused by their cancer treatment. She said: ‘The analogy I often use, which patients...
by Patrick | Aug 8, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, painting
Carry Akroyd “I’d long admired the observant realism of her Fenland Paintings – straight dykes running to the skyline, square arable fields sinuating with tractor tracks, tangled marshes where lapwings flicker in black and white, and level horizons pierced by wind...
by Patrick | Aug 5, 2017 | Travel
Since my stay in 2010 the Cube hotel has become an Accor operated property, and is now branded as Hotel My Tirol. It is an old belief amongst hoteliers that it is not the first owner or developer who makes money from an hotel but the third, and it seems that that is...
by Patrick | Jul 28, 2017 | art, drawing
Just over a year since my last visit to the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, I make the jaunt again, this time to see a more in-depth look at the work of Eric Gill (1882 – 1940). Much controversy surrounded this exhibition because of Gill’s sexual activities with...
by Patrick | Jul 18, 2017 | art, Lifestyle, photography, Uncategorized
Is it still sung in junior schools? The song still echoes in my mind as I contemplate the request to write a Review of my new plastic bucket. Oh yes , the web ‘feedback loops’ for customer metrics even extends to requesting feedback on the purchase of a bucket.....
by Patrick | Jun 25, 2017 | art, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
“Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn’t matter much to me” (Strawberry Field Forever- the Beatles) Funny how on this long and winding road, life goes along. Just three...
by Patrick | May 26, 2017 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
The seasons run their race, even though global warming does seem to be changing the pattern we are used to. It is now turning hotter as spring slowly matures into summer and greens deepen, losing their bright green newness for a darker maturity. When the weather is...
by Patrick | May 15, 2017 | art, Lifestyle
At a time of elections politicians ask us to put our trust in them. They all lie about what they will do after the election in the hope of winning our vote, this being of course why the percentage of people voting goes down and down. It’s a dangerous game they play,...
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