by Patrick | Oct 14, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
Working the squares to explore colour and texture has unlocked a way forward for me. The drawings for the Harbour Wall painting were building on experimentation from the poppy series as I outlined in ‘Moving Forward’. Whilst I looked back thinking the analysis showed...
by Patrick | Sep 21, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
Working through the ideas around the imagery of the lavender, I realised that the way I was approaching the colour and the way I was approaching the structure of the painting I was sliding into a second version of the border ‘Geranium’ painting from some years ago....
by Patrick | Sep 4, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Garden, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
The starting point for my paintings is always some piece of observation. Sometimes it is recorded photographically, on other occasions by drawing directly in the sketch book. Whatever the starting point I always progress through a series of works on paper exploring...
by Patrick | Aug 16, 2020 | art, art as language, Design, education, Lifestyle, painting, Uncategorized
The Prado Museum, one of the world’s biggest art galleries, cannot find 885 of its own works, according to Spain’s Audit Court. Some years ago, I was a part of a group of artists organising group shows in galleries throughout the English North West, as well as my solo...
by Patrick | Jun 25, 2020 | art, education, Lifestyle, Remembrance
We are going through a period of change again. Periodically society gets shaken up. Right now we are seeing idle hands taking advantage of the reduction in police numbers brought on by a policy of balancing the national budget, itself blown apart by the CV-19...
by Patrick | May 28, 2020 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, Travel
Apparently, despite storms or collapse, every Empire has this 50-year long surge of the arts as its last flickering flame of greatness. Certainly, the Britain I have lived in has achieved remarkable things in music, the visual arts, theatre, film and literature. In my...
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