by Patrick | Feb 9, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Op Art, painting, photography
We live in what all the pundits refer to as a ‘rule based world’. Whether talking about Putin and Russia’s assertiveness through asymmetrical warfare as in Ukraine, or anarchic demonstrations of the kind seen in major western cities, our rule based world is under...
by Patrick | Feb 2, 2017 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
It stands erect, ringed in red and white. The dark wilderness of its base set aside from the billowing white up swelling of the chalk cliffs behind it. Thrusting upwards in public warning, its tip glazed and different to its shaft, it stands out by day attracting the...
by Patrick | Jan 21, 2017 | art, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I was shocked to discover that the cancer and the consequential hospital stays had wrought such havoc on my body. My partner and I measure each other (shut up, it’s fun) each year, and I have lost muscle mass along with weight. Thigh muscles to have withered, so I...
by Patrick | Jan 13, 2017 | art, Lifestyle
In the beginning Many look at the glamorised television design shows and think ‘I can do that’. Like being a footballer, anyone can kick the ball, but the level of skill needed to rise to the top is considerable and beyond the capabilities of many people....
by Patrick | Jan 4, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Once upon a time, long, long ago, a father taught his son to draw. The youth showed a precocious talent. An uncle portrayed as a ‘great ape’ because he called the boy ‘monkey face’, was teased by his brothers about the drawing, and never forgave the lad. Art college...
by Patrick | Dec 29, 2016 | art, art as language, Lifestyle
I have been a collector most of my life. At ten I was collecting matchbox toys. At 12 it was British and Commonwealth postage stamps. At 16 it was Cypriot wine bottle labels. In art college, I began looking at collecting the work of other artists, starting with work...
by Patrick | Dec 11, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I was asked the other day about the transition from being an art student to establishing my own practice as an artist. The individual asking was working in a major public collection looking after the works in the museum gallery, but had trained as a fine artist. This...
by Patrick | Dec 1, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting
Slowly, slowly I am getting back to working in the studio. I am generally an optimist, some have called me a gambler, a risk taker, but that has been my life, and has enabled me to advance both in art and design, and to succeed, fail, succeed again in business. Cancer...
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