by Patrick | May 16, 2021 | art, art as language, education, Op Art, painting, photography
Stretching and priming is the basic beginning of every canvas. You can buy canvases from professional makers, but I prefer to choose the type of canvas I use and stretch it myself, to a size I want to work on. This continues my showing the process that I, as an...
by Patrick | May 14, 2021 | art, art as language, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
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by Patrick | Apr 20, 2021 | art, art as language, drawing, education, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
With over 50 now works completed my fascination with the rusting sea defences on the Cuckmere and at Seaford’s Splash Point continue. Initially it was the metal plating and its changes in colour under the impact of tides that were the driver, but the more I have...
by Patrick | Mar 29, 2021 | art, art as language, Op Art, painting, photography, wilderness
Right at the beginning of this series BRotS#1 had a vestigial wave pattern at its base, partly, I will admit, simply to hide the fact the drawing wasn’t quite square. See how intellectual the process can be? Ha! Throughout the remaining explorations and paintings, the...
by Patrick | Mar 20, 2021 | art, art as language, drawing, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
“So far, though I haven’t looked closely, the aesthetic dimension of NFTs is the least interesting thing about them, in the same way that you’re probably not so interested in the design of a large-denomination banknote, or the font of an artist’s resale rights...
by Patrick | Feb 7, 2021 | art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, photography, Uncategorized
Abstraction that is not abstraction. Tiptoeing around reality. What exactly do these statements mean? In my mind they mean looking hard and seeing what others do not, seeing the normally unseen, a little like those childhood games where you are challenged to recognise...
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