by Patrick | Oct 19, 2017 | art, art as language, Op Art, painting, photography
My latest exhibition is in Lewes (see poster) 1st November until 12th December. Get in touch if you would like me to meet you there to discuss the work. Work will be for sale, make a lovely eternal Christmas gift. The Private View is on the 12th November, 4 – 6...
by Patrick | Aug 28, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, wilderness
“Julia Cole, from the Priory’s Wellbeing Centre in Southampton, spoke following warnings from charity Macmillan Cancer Support that 240,000 British people have mental health problems caused by their cancer treatment. She said: ‘The analogy I often use, which patients...
by Patrick | Aug 8, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, painting
Carry Akroyd “I’d long admired the observant realism of her Fenland Paintings – straight dykes running to the skyline, square arable fields sinuating with tractor tracks, tangled marshes where lapwings flicker in black and white, and level horizons pierced by wind...
by Patrick | May 7, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
As I work through the ideas underpinning my ‘Four Season’ group of paintings, I pause to draw breath and appreciate where I am right now. If you have followed my blogs you will have seen my tale of cancer, starting in November 2012 when I revealed the diagnosis. It...
by Patrick | Apr 29, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
In my last piece I wrote that artists may be their own Trump, viewing the world and creating their own interpreted reality from it. I wrote how my own work had unconsciously become a simulacrum of events outside myself and the studio. I may not have been so far from...
by Patrick | Apr 20, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, painting, photography
It didn’t start out as an overtly political painting. My subconscious at work perhaps? Maybe, but the process has its roots way back in the flow of work. My starting point is always something observed. In this instance, the beginnings were sparked by a blue ceramic...
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