by Patrick | Apr 8, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
In an earlier essay on here I wrote about ‘Following in Slaters Footsteps’ which may have been seen to imply I copy what he did. That would not be terribly creative would it? No, I follow his footsteps as he walked Seaford and the Cuckmere from where he lived, just up...
by Patrick | Dec 31, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
In my work documenting decay on the English South Coast I walk with a camera and record what I see with a view to taking it into the studio to process into paintings. This is a developmental path well known since the 19th century, flowering in the 20th in the work of...
by Patrick | Nov 12, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
For a couple of months, I have struggled in the studio. Drawings based on Gropius’ house in Dessau fill sketchbook pages. Images of the trees around the ‘masters houses’ of the Bauhaus, printed out, litter my worktable. My ‘bag’ is colour of course, and like most war...
by Patrick | Sep 8, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, oil, painting, pastels, photography, Uncategorized
There was only radio for entertainment for many of my early years. I have written before of how my father taught me to draw. My formative years were spent in physical exploration of woods and fields, making model aeroplanes and filling books with drawings. Aged six...
by Patrick | Aug 16, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels, Remembrance
“You guys have no idea how painful it is to have been young during the absolute peak era of the greatest empire in human history and now be forced to watch it all unravel. The saddest part is that we are doing it to ourselves. Absolutely agonizing experience. Like...
by Patrick | Jun 24, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, BRotS, drawing, Environment, painting, photography
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas With the addition of a photographic record of decay, the four books of images of paintings and...
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