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 | Jul 29, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
I was asleep but uncomfortable. It felt like there was a hot water bottle against my back. Yes of course it was the cat – progressed from walking along my spine to just waiting and heating. Blearily I looked at my watch. Just after six. Sun is rising. Yeah OK Sid, I...
by Patrick | Jul 24, 2025 | art, art as language, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Uncategorized
Time passes. We measure our life in yesterdays, watches on our wrists measuring in seconds/minutes/strides/heartbeats. Calendars a tick of days and months, birthdays the rotations around the sun. We measure our ageing and contrast it with growth, calling seasons...
by Patrick | Jul 2, 2025 | art, Design, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
Many wail about declining numbers of working people, using it to justify the invasion of ill-educated, frequently low IQ, predominantly male migrant workers to provide the labour they think we need, flying in the face of the evidence that automation and new working...
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...
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