by Patrick | Jun 4, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, painting, photography, Travel, wilderness
Now the Turner prize has gone, and we have our gallery back. Still not free of the corrosive Arts Council social work arts programme, but ignore the excrescence on the ground floor, despite its claim using the Bayeux Tapestry to justify the size of its awfulness. No,...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It’s where the past is hit by the future. The past is sedimentary and igneous rocks that formed the earth; the future is the waves that smash onto them loaded with shingle driven by sun, the moon, winds and tides, the sea reputedly where life started. Man...
by Patrick | Aug 14, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels, photography
Life is complicated. Living is a process. Plan it all you want but interruptions to the process are inevitable whether from internal failure or external forces, physical, emotional, financial. Life is like that. When an artist starts on a journey of discovery through...
by Patrick | Jul 19, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, education, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
“This happy band of men, this little world This precious stone set in silver sea This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, This England” Shakespeare’s Richard II “The centuries have left their enduring mark on the land and its people in the form of age...
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...
by Patrick | Jul 16, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
The Renaissance was a period of renewal and innovation during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries: in painting characterised by innovations in paint technology and perception. Some, like Utrillo in his history paintings, focussed on the newly formalised system of...
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