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,...
by Patrick | May 7, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
As I work through the ideas underpinning my ‘Four Season’ group of paintings, I pause to draw breath and appreciate where I am right now. If you have followed my blogs you will have seen my tale of cancer, starting in November 2012 when I revealed the diagnosis. It...
by Patrick | Apr 29, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
In my last piece I wrote that artists may be their own Trump, viewing the world and creating their own interpreted reality from it. I wrote how my own work had unconsciously become a simulacrum of events outside myself and the studio. I may not have been so far from...
by Patrick | Apr 20, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, painting, photography
It didn’t start out as an overtly political painting. My subconscious at work perhaps? Maybe, but the process has its roots way back in the flow of work. My starting point is always something observed. In this instance, the beginnings were sparked by a blue ceramic...
by Patrick | Apr 3, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, painting, pastels, photography
We live in a world of ‘alt: news’ apparently, this being a world where people cannot tell fact from fiction. Supposedly an ‘alternate reality’ in which how they see the world is not the same as how you might see the world. I accept that all facts are capable of...
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