by Patrick | Jan 6, 2021 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
Time for a little about how I’m working. I am fortunate to have a dedicated studio, not large but a bit bigger than the space I had as a student at Cosham in the 1960’s and large enough for a layout that has allowed me to develop a working discipline. I have the usual...
by Patrick | Jan 2, 2021 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography, Uncategorized
It has been a while since I walked down to Cuckmere Haven. During COVID lockdown I kept hearing rumours of it being overrun with visitors and the road up to my usual parking place, Seaford’s Barn, was jammed with cars. Then I began to hear from friends, aware I was...
by Patrick | Dec 20, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography, Travel
Among the many images I have collected of the #BRotS (see The Bridget Riley of the Shingle for explanation) are images of the defences at the mouth of the Cuckmere, part of a system aimed at protecting the internationally famous and genuinely iconic Coastguard...
by Patrick | Nov 13, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, painting, photography
“Another example from the average surfer’s perspective: imagine a 20-inch thick wave lip, only 3.2 feet wide, in a summer three-foot wave. Total weight? A solid 1100 pounds.” From ‘SurferToday’ The waves start in the...
by Patrick | Nov 2, 2020 | art, Environment, Op Art, painting, photography
“but many were small farms, still, in 1974, using shit pails in outside loos. Some of these were even two seaters, something I had only seen before in museums.” It seems that sewerage continues to play a part in my life here in Sussex. In the 1970’s it was part of my...
by Patrick | Oct 14, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
Working the squares to explore colour and texture has unlocked a way forward for me. The drawings for the Harbour Wall painting were building on experimentation from the poppy series as I outlined in ‘Moving Forward’. Whilst I looked back thinking the analysis showed...
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