by Patrick | Jun 25, 2016 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
I was brought up a ‘service brat’. I am the son of a man whose adult life, from age 16 to 53 was spent serving his country. My father came from a poor background. Grandma and grandad lived in a council house in Bromborough in the Wirral, just across the Mersey from...
by Patrick | Jun 9, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment
I have been using a digital camera now for some 15 years. My first had a marvellous 2.5-megapixel sensor, my latest comes in at 55-megapixels. A bit like the early days of computers the process of development has engulfed photographers in upgrade after expensive...
by Patrick | May 30, 2016 | art, art as language, painting, pastels
“I think therefore I am” 17th century philosopher Descartes doubted everything he said and began his treatise by saying that everything he knew was false. By denying everything, he can begin his argument free and clear of prejudice, with an open and innocent mind....
by Patrick | May 29, 2016 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
There is a proverb and a prayer withall, That we may not to three strange places fall; From Hull, from Hell, from Halifax, ’tis this, From all these three, Good Lord, deliver us. This praying proverb’s meaning to set down, Men do not wish deliverance from...
by Patrick | May 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing
Sussex has many pretty villages, and Ditchling shows how many are being spoiled by traffic and their identities being subsumed into the metropolitan urbanity. The centre of Ditchling is the traffic jammed mini-roundabout, and of the rural lifestyle that attracted...
by Patrick | May 13, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Remembrance
The writing was on the wall in Europe long before 1939. Hitler came to power in 1933, the culmination of a series of economic and political catastrophes across Europe. Churchill warned a complacent British political class (aren’t they always?) of the dangers on the...
by Patrick | Apr 2, 2016 | Environment
The soft susurrations of shingle stones in Sussex on calm days are few by comparison with the shattering crash of waves in mad March days. Pebbles can be thrown hundreds of feet by forceful waves measured on the Channel wave buoy at nearly 14metres from peak to...
by Patrick | Feb 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, painting, pastels
Spring is sprung in the garden. The occasional night drops below zero and we have the occasional frost but the daffodils are out, crocuses abound and everything is popping into bud. The right time to start a new piece of work and do a bit of a spring clean to the...
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