by Patrick | Sep 6, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art
I am an early riser. I normally wake around 6.30 and wander downstairs in my dressing gown. Usually I pick up a camera and head into the garden to take my morning photograph. The camera is heavy, the back door locked, the cat demanding. The cat is given a thorough...
by Patrick | Aug 28, 2016 | art, Op Art, painting
I guess this work started four or five years ago, predating moving to Seaford. What a blessing my love gave me when she bought me the studio as a present for Christmas in 2013, six months after we moved in. I remember the giggles as she tied the door shut with a gold...
by Patrick | Aug 19, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels
‘Honeysuckle Sun’ I called this image first time around. Still I come back to this photography and drawing of honeysuckle, twisting and turning as I try to resolve the balance between the photographs, the drawings and the paintings. The drawings have become perhaps...
by Patrick | Aug 2, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
The gap between this and my last post is nearly a month. Longer than I wanted it to be. But the words to describe the processes and drivers of the last month have been difficult, if not impossible to find. I thought of calling this ‘Cancer and Windflower’ following on...
by Patrick | Jul 7, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, Uncategorized
Gradually my spirits have risen as my health appears to have improved. I say ‘appears’ as when I wrote in January about emerging from the tunnel of fear that cancer creates I did have at the back of my mind the old joke about the light at the ends of the tunnel being...
by Patrick | Jun 9, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment
I have been using a digital camera now for some 15 years. My first had a marvellous 2.5-megapixel sensor, my latest comes in at 55-megapixels. A bit like the early days of computers the process of development has engulfed photographers in upgrade after expensive...
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