by Patrick | Jun 10, 2023 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, Uncategorized
End to a long hot day. A trip into Eastbourne to see the Hepworth exhibition again. On return the drive around the road passing Beachy Head and Birling Gap. When empty it is a delight to drive quickly, but today is slow, rubber neckers behind tourist buses. The padre...
by Patrick | May 15, 2023 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
In Such is Life I catalogued my adventures in the NHS over the years. That was written two years ago, and deterioration has continued. As a result, so have the operations. Maybe because of the removal of part of my blood circulation I have been becoming increasingly...
by Patrick | Mar 20, 2023 | Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
(This is the second of the memoires for nephews and grandchildren requested by them to help them remember and honour their grandad) I have dad’s wartime record but not his own flight book, which was burned at the end of the war. He said lots of them were burned, the...
by Patrick | Mar 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Just ‘dad’ to Patrick, Jenny and Robert (in descending order). Husband to Dorothy – also known as Dottie. There are earlier generations of course but this is his story, not theirs. First though a caveat. Dad like to relate experiences from the past and as with many...
by Patrick | Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
As I sort through new works to show in Gallery UNO in Seaford, I ponder my past shows. I have lost count of the number of exhibitions I have had in galleries across England – yes all in England despite my Welsh heritage. Shows in London, Liverpool, Manchester,...
by Patrick | Feb 20, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
“Entropy is the process in nature that tends to return all things to their original state.” Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We commit…. I sit at my keyboard with a pile of photographs of my mother and father getting married surrounded by the other members of the...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
Attracted to the glamour of a career in art and design, new students would arrive in college for their Foundation course, in effect the first year of a four-year degree programme. There are (or were) over 46 disciplines offered under the banner of art and design...
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...
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