by Patrick | Jun 15, 2026 | art, art as language, BRotS, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, wilderness
Daisy, daisy… Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do! I’m half crazy, All for the love of you! written by Harry Dacre in 1892 The oxeye daisies have grown high. Unlike the common daisy which shrinks in a lawn, oxeye stands tall and proud and springs up as soon as...
by Patrick | Mar 20, 2026 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
It started, as so many ideas do these days, with seeing something again in the garden. The fuchsia had grown tall against the flint wall. It was not just the progression of the scale of the floret, from tiny bud to full flower but also the progressions of colour and...
by Patrick | Feb 16, 2026 | art, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I use the camera a great deal. It replaces a sketchbook most of time, as it does for many artists, whilst I notice many photographers frequently use a small sketch book before taking their photographs. One tribe trained purely to see, maybe not as technically ‘deep’,...
by Patrick | Jan 1, 2026 | art, art as language, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
Myths and legends form part of the culture of any nation. Norway only shook itself free of a union with Denmark and Sweden in 1814 and whilst much of its traditions are shared with those two Nordic nations, they have built on their own legends to foster and reinforce...
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 | 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...
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