by Patrick | Jan 14, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
The success of the art college system outside of the Universities was the cause of its fatal decline. The Universities could not compete with the creative glow the colleges gave off even at the local level, and the thriving Dip.A.D. degree system was putting to shame...
by Patrick | Jan 10, 2023 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Uncategorized
It is now over 50 years since I started at art college. It was also a different world as change has been and continues to be so fundamental to life and time passing. This is a little bit of a ‘look back in anger’ at the waste of opportunity led by generations of...
by Patrick | Dec 20, 2022 | art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
I opened the curtains on greyness. At least this morning the weather image would not involve a soaking. The cat takes priority and I fill his bowl, the first of numerous feeds for the greedy furball. Then I lean against a warm radiator and take in the light quality...
by Patrick | Nov 26, 2022 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
I’ve had a bad month. COVID fading more into the background meant I was able to see my doctor at 4th attempt, resulting in a series of referrals mostly dealing with that curse of ageing – arthritis, but also to deal with recurring reminders of the cancer. For me pain...
by Patrick | Oct 19, 2022 | art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance, Travel
It’s the cat’s fault. He doesn’t mean to really, but he manages to wake me every morning before dawn. I think it is related to his nocturnal prowling but even as dawn has moved later now, in mid-October, he is still waking me around 5a.m. I lie warm under the duvet...
by Patrick | Aug 27, 2022 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel, wilderness
South Barn It has been a dry hot summer. The Barn is known for having no heating, not being wind proof, sometimes not even waterproof, and today there is one of those miserable damp misty sea fret sort of days. Perched on Seaford Head the rest of the South Downs...
by Patrick | Aug 15, 2022 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, photography, wilderness
The harvest is gathered, the dry weather making harvesting more predictable than in most English summers. The converse, of course, is that there is little fresh grass for stock, so farmers are already beginning to use their winter feed as they wait, much as those of...
by Patrick | Aug 5, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography, Uncategorized
It’s been a tough year. Is that what happens as one ages – each year gets tougher? Physically I have always tried to exercise, even buying a share in a central London gym once at the height of the gym investment craze. Great place to exercise. Went bust of course. I...
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