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...
by Patrick | Mar 26, 2017 | art, art as language, painting
Many artists profess that the scariest thing they face is a large empty white canvas. I love it. A new playground of ideas. I start with the image I want to work with, in this next painting another daisy image but also involving a pot of crocus. If I had to guess I’d...
by Patrick | Mar 19, 2017 | art, Lifestyle, painting
There is an image of Superman, used on the front page of comics for ages, fist raised, taking off in a leap into the atmosphere. One bound, and he’s free! That is exactly how I feel. Given the all clear from cancer, also cleared of diabetes completely (not even...
by Patrick | Mar 7, 2017 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance
I’ve been living in Seaford, East Sussex, for over 3 years now, and to my embarrassment I still have boxes in the studio unpacked since moving. Spurred on by a clear out of the garage as a part of a refurbishment of the ground floor of the house, I decided it was time...
by Patrick | Feb 23, 2017 | art
The ‘Times’ today (Feb 23 2017) published an article on the rise in the number of cancers diagnosed in England. For many years, it has been a hidden killer (it claimed the lives of both my mother and father) but our diagnostics are better than ever and the ‘cure’ rate...
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