by Patrick | May 20, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Steps
The grid paintings dominated my artistic output for many years, symbolic of the systems and structures our governments put in place to control us, the colour breaking free of the grid’s constraints. Almost the last of these was the Brexit Daisy (now in a private...
by Patrick | Apr 30, 2025 | art, education, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
This feels like summer. The summer of 68/69? It was never about the music for me. Corsham, art college, was all about the environment, down to spending a night sleeping up a tree in the grounds of the Court after a row with Geoff Turpin, who’d given up sleeping in...
by Patrick | Apr 1, 2025 | art, art as language, Environment, Garden, painting, photography, Remembrance
Its warm in the garden this evening, the first time I’ve been enticed to sit on the bench warming myself in the sun, a geriatric with a camera. The term comes from Greek roots—”geras” meaning old age and “iatros” meaning physician. In a broader...
by Patrick | Mar 16, 2025 | art as language, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Winter retreats. At the first opportunity I take my coffee into the garden to sit in the sun, watching the frost melt off the grass (almost as exciting as things get around here). I sit there not just soaking up sunshine but looking at the rich greens of the grass,...
by Patrick | Dec 21, 2024 | art, art as language, BRotS, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
In my last post in November, I wrote of my mental confusion and the twists and turns I was making to find a way forward with my work. Since then, I have done plenty of work with the camera, but the problems remained unresolved. I am beginning to realise that many of...
by Patrick | Oct 27, 2024 | art, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography
As October drifts to an end so we change our clocks – or not, depending in part on the clock. Clocks on computers change automatically, supposedly the car is linked to house Wi-Fi so should change with the computer but won’t, so will stay on French (or wherever) time...
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