by Patrick | Apr 28, 2020 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, photography
The Sayings origins are lost in the mists of time. It was stated in various ways from the sixteenth century on. Shakespeare’s version is close to the modern: “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye” from Love’s Labour’s Lost, 2.1. Possibly the first exact statement...
by Patrick | Apr 13, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, photography, Travel, Uncategorized
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. Masefield 1902 Once...
by Patrick | Feb 19, 2020 | art, art as language, education, painting
“Knowing that life is so strange and so uncontrollable, there is no way, and art is impossible, as impossible as living. And yet one lives, and strange things happen, and art also happens, like falling in love.” Alan Davie from the 1958 Wakefield Exhibition Catalogue...
by Patrick | Jan 23, 2020 | art, art as language, education, oil, Op Art, painting, photography
For many years I have been questioned on my retention of the grid in my paintings. I have explained to those interested that the grids represent the control mechanisms that are exercised by the law and bureaucracy of government. It is a parallel with the ‘control...
by Patrick | Dec 17, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Op Art, painting, pastels, Remembrance, Uncategorized
My Verdun Triptych has now found a new home in a local public school, and there’s a story behind this dating back to the 1970’s. When I complete my degree course I was upset to be handed the application forms for a posts-graduate teaching course. This seemed like a...
by Patrick | Oct 15, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Sculpture, wilderness
In an art world currently filled with frivolous lightweight pieces (a little like the House of Commons) it is a pleasant change to find a show in a provincial gallery to rival that in any of the so-called ‘major’ art centres in the big cities. The Towner has worked...
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