by Patrick | Jul 6, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel, Uncategorized
It started with a ‘bucket list’. After twenty years travelling Europe, the US and Africa there are a few places I still want to visit – and no, I don’t need anymore suggestions, thanks… In the past I have visited over 30 countries, but there are places I still want to...
by Patrick | Jun 28, 2018 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel, Uncategorized
It’s monumental. In WW1 1400 of Britain’s bell ringers died. What more fitting way to remember them than to recruit 1400 new bell ringers and have a ’ring-in’ on November 11th on the anniversary of the War? Monumental ambition wants a national muffled set of rings in...
by Patrick | Jun 20, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Op Art, painting
In my blog at the end of January I wrote “I hope to explore more loosely the colour ideas” that I was exploring in drawings based on the BRotS series. Slowly this has come together, interrupted by a long sojourn in South Africa and the time spent focussed on health...
by Patrick | May 20, 2018 | art, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
A week ago composer John Kerr wrote: “Just got home from doing my very last concert together with Ron Boots and Harold van der Heijden… so here’s another short excerpt from my album “prelude to a requiem”. release: 16th September on my 70th...
by Patrick | May 9, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
As an art student in the 1960’s I worked every vacation. It started when I was a Foundation student (pre-dip in those days) in Stafford Art College. My parents were living in married quarters at the RAF apprentice school in Cosford (now a rather spectacular part of...
by Patrick | Apr 26, 2018 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Travel
I suppose at my advancing age (I’m 72 now) I should be used to the failure of our politicians as much as I am used to my own. Lately, and maybe because I am much more aware as an observer and outsider, the national failures have become more and more intolerable, the...
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