by Patrick | Jun 20, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Op Art, painting
In my blog at the end of January I wrote “I hope to explore more loosely the colour ideas” that I was exploring in drawings based on the BRotS series. Slowly this has come together, interrupted by a long sojourn in South Africa and the time spent focussed on health...
by Patrick | May 9, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
As an art student in the 1960’s I worked every vacation. It started when I was a Foundation student (pre-dip in those days) in Stafford Art College. My parents were living in married quarters at the RAF apprentice school in Cosford (now a rather spectacular part of...
by Patrick | Apr 18, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, Environment, photography, Travel
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), opened on 22 September 2017 at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. It is the world’s largest museum dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Having seen it under construction in 2016 I was eager...
by Patrick | Feb 23, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, photography
“Painting is washed up. Who will ever do anything better than that propeller? Tell me, can you do that?”. Marcel Duchamp 1912 It started with Duchamp’s signature on a urinal. Making a point? Or just a comment on the art around him? Was it really saying...
by Patrick | Jan 29, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
They were used in industry to tease out threads from wool for spinning. Using photographs and drawings I am teasing out ideas about expressing their structure through colour on both canvas, and if I can figure out a simple way of doing it, in 3D too. I have been...
by Patrick | Dec 28, 2017 | art, art as language, Design, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
Talking at one of the Christmas parties (you know, women in one room talking politics and whatever, blokes in the kitchen talking about motor bikes/cars/boats) a guy asked me what I had done for a living. Note: what I had done – we were all of a certain age. I told...
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