by Patrick | Jun 15, 2026 | art, art as language, BRotS, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, wilderness
Daisy, daisy… Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do! I’m half crazy, All for the love of you! written by Harry Dacre in 1892 The oxeye daisies have grown high. Unlike the common daisy which shrinks in a lawn, oxeye stands tall and proud and springs up as soon as...
by Patrick | May 31, 2026 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography
This house has stood over a hundred years now, built on the site of huts from where British soldiers went to stand in trenches in France in World War 1. Bombs fell on the road in World War 2 and when the house across the road was being modernised ten years ago, the...
by Patrick | May 5, 2026 | art, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized, wilderness
The exhibition is over. A critical success perhaps but low sales failed to recover the costs. After recovering the unsold works and putting them into store I am sitting and taking stock, which means letting things meander around my unconscious mind whilst my...
by Patrick | Mar 20, 2026 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
It started, as so many ideas do these days, with seeing something again in the garden. The fuchsia had grown tall against the flint wall. It was not just the progression of the scale of the floret, from tiny bud to full flower but also the progressions of colour and...
by Patrick | Feb 16, 2026 | art, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I use the camera a great deal. It replaces a sketchbook most of time, as it does for many artists, whilst I notice many photographers frequently use a small sketch book before taking their photographs. One tribe trained purely to see, maybe not as technically ‘deep’,...
by Patrick | Jan 29, 2026 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel, Uncategorized, wilderness
World War 2 hadn’t been over for two years yet. The British were still under a regime of rationing of food, clothing and fuel. The allocated rations were lower than they had been during World War 2 as supplies were diverted from Britain to feed starving peoples...
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