by Patrick | Nov 25, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
A chat with Amanda Lewis-Clements Patrick: Come on. I’ve been asking you for your working process for bloody ages and nothing has come. Do you blame your other half? Or is that just you cop out! Amanda: No, it’s not… (laughter) well because he said he...
by Patrick | Nov 21, 2025 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, photography, Uncategorized
Getting old is combatted in part by staying active and engaged both physically and mentally. Now women can run faster than me, the physical is represented by ambling with a camera wherever the fancy takes me. I have a target gleaned from a Chinese exercise site where...
by Patrick | Nov 3, 2025 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
How pleasant it is to wander a show labelled with Turner’s name and be one of only a dozen worshippers scattered across a number of beautifully lit, well presented (love the wall colour) galleries. From time to time the Towner shakes off the dross and presents us with...
by Patrick | Oct 11, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, Remembrance
There has been a Ravilious room at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery for quite a long time. Reworking now in a generous and long overdue space liberated by the addition of new galleries downstairs breathes new life into appreciating his short-lived genius. Ravilious is an...
by Patrick | Sep 29, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Steps
It started with the weather images. Today I take them with a sophisticated digital camera (so far 3,600 images) but I started them in pre-digital times as small gouache paintings done very quickly and very small from my back doorstep in Lancashire. There I delighted...
by Patrick | Sep 10, 2025 | art, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle
I’m a sucker for much of Victorian design. Inventive, creative, the birth of the machine age unleashed a wave of design, and the Victorians built an art college in every major English town to act as a seedbed for creative and revolutionary thinking. Whilst...
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