by Patrick | Mar 15, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
A few years ago there was an exhibition in London’s Serpentine Gallery called ‘Art into Landscape’. From the earliest Renaissance masters through Turner and the Impressionists, to Hockney’s brilliance, the face of our globe has been a source of visual fascination,...
by Patrick | Mar 9, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
I arrived in Seaford at the beginning of August 2013, attracted by the land and seascape around here. Many years ago I used to live in Brighton (and indeed had my first exhibitions of my paintings there) but its big city provincial brashness didn’t appeal after...
by Patrick | Mar 2, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
Juggling the studio as an addition to writing and photographing hotels for HotelDesigns, and at the same time making space for walks/fitness along the coast is proving a tough but enjoyable challenge. It means when I do get in the studio I tend to be very focussed as...
by Patrick | Feb 23, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
Going up to town from Seaford is relatively easy, letting the train take the strain, assuming there arte any running of course. There are Supposedly three direct trains a day though in this rapidly becoming a third world country they rarely appear. If they do the last...
by Patrick | Feb 9, 2014 | art, Environment
I always used to hammer it into students that a sketch book was their personal idea library. Not a scrapbook, as so many lecturers allowed them instead, but a place in which you record manually your response to external stimuli, through using eyes and some form of...
by Patrick | Feb 2, 2014 | art, Environment
The Impressionists went to the south of France for the light. English artists found their vision at home, Constable in Suffolk, Turner in Sussex. Sussex is now my ‘home ground’ and the light is startling in its clarity, cleansed by sea breezes and...
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