by Patrick | Oct 2, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
For over eighteen months I have been working from images of my local sea defences, fascinated by the complexities of colour and texture generated by their decay. Sheet metal supposedly protecting the concrete structure that in turn protects a sewer treatment outfall,...
by Patrick | Sep 1, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
During ArtWave 21 I have been asked to participate in the ‘Celebrate Cuckmere’ exhibition at the South Hill Barn, a newish venue in the South Downs National Park on the edge of Seaford, because of the work and essays I have written about the sea defences...
by Patrick | Aug 5, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
For almost a year I have worked through the paintings on paper and canvas (drawings and canvases?) producing 14 canvases and some 60+ works on paper. Immersed in the process I have changed my techniques and the way I use paint. Strangely I think the initial impulse...
by Patrick | Jul 10, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Op Art, painting, photography
As a first-year degree student I found myself in a small group being challenged by Michael Kidner and his partner in crime Adrian Heath to create a ‘light modular’ in which pairs of colours of the same tonality would, when photographed in black and white, show as a...
by Patrick | Jul 4, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
I don’t enjoy drawing in public. I mean by that working away with a cluster of people, ebbing and flowing, constantly changing, peering over my shoulder. I used to work in the studio when teaching but then always prepared to talk to my students about what I was doing,...
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...
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