by Patrick | Apr 27, 2014 | Environment, Lifestyle
There is a song from the seventies echoing around my head – was it Peter, Paul and Mary? Can’t remember but it reminds me that having posted articles about cruise liners and cross channel ferries before, the missing bit about sleep on the move is the...
by Patrick | Apr 20, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
I never really thought of the Beach Boys as anything more than happy harmonics. West Coast surfer sound lacking the depth, emotional and musical, of the Beatles. They reflected the US West Coast in all its frothy entertainment world frivolity. Looking back maybe the...
by Patrick | Mar 30, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
I thought “Bugger Narnia”. It may have been that for an English child in the early 20th century the darkness of grandma’s wardrobe, the smell of camphor and cedar wood were the harbingers of mystery and adventure. In a miserable damp English autumn...
by Patrick | Mar 15, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
A few years ago there was an exhibition in London’s Serpentine Gallery called ‘Art into Landscape’. From the earliest Renaissance masters through Turner and the Impressionists, to Hockney’s brilliance, the face of our globe has been a source of visual fascination,...
by Patrick | Mar 9, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
I arrived in Seaford at the beginning of August 2013, attracted by the land and seascape around here. Many years ago I used to live in Brighton (and indeed had my first exhibitions of my paintings there) but its big city provincial brashness didn’t appeal after...
by Patrick | Mar 2, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
Juggling the studio as an addition to writing and photographing hotels for HotelDesigns, and at the same time making space for walks/fitness along the coast is proving a tough but enjoyable challenge. It means when I do get in the studio I tend to be very focussed as...
by Patrick | Feb 23, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
Going up to town from Seaford is relatively easy, letting the train take the strain, assuming there arte any running of course. There are Supposedly three direct trains a day though in this rapidly becoming a third world country they rarely appear. If they do the last...
by Patrick | Feb 16, 2014 | Environment, Lifestyle
It was in 1987 that the groynes on Seaford beach were buried under tons of imported gravel, brought in to boost the defences along the beachfront. Over the last few months I have photographed and written in two earlier posts about the Environment Agency’s...
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