by Patrick | Sep 26, 2017 | Design, Travel, Uncategorized
Guide to running a Practice Pt 2: Cashflow Forecasting and Studio management Once you have decided to start your own design practice you have taken the first bold step down a road that can lead you to fame and fortune. However, without good management this first bold...
by Patrick | Sep 23, 2017 | Design, Travel, Uncategorized
A Guide to Running a Practice: Part 1 Getting Paid Or what are Professional Fees, and how are they paid? My grandparents on both sides of my family were farmers. It was drummed into me at an early age that money was earned and that the way to earn it was to work hard....
by Patrick | Sep 11, 2017 | Travel
Cape Town is a large sprawling city, with the Independent Republic of Hout Bay its far flung easternmost suburb on the way to Cape Point. With the Seven Sister mountain chain the backbone of the area Hout Bay is separated from the rest of Cape Town by mountains...
by Patrick | Sep 4, 2017 | art, photography
There is a lost world on Seaford Head. Go past the Roman burial ground, near the location of the bronze age fort, half concealed in spreading scrub, turf and brambles you will find a network of military roads. Their concrete remains weirdly unbroken after 70 years,...
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...
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