by Patrick | Mar 26, 2017 | art, art as language, painting
Many artists profess that the scariest thing they face is a large empty white canvas. I love it. A new playground of ideas. I start with the image I want to work with, in this next painting another daisy image but also involving a pot of crocus. If I had to guess I’d...
by Patrick | Feb 9, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Op Art, painting, photography
We live in what all the pundits refer to as a ‘rule based world’. Whether talking about Putin and Russia’s assertiveness through asymmetrical warfare as in Ukraine, or anarchic demonstrations of the kind seen in major western cities, our rule based world is under...
by Patrick | Jan 4, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Once upon a time, long, long ago, a father taught his son to draw. The youth showed a precocious talent. An uncle portrayed as a ‘great ape’ because he called the boy ‘monkey face’, was teased by his brothers about the drawing, and never forgave the lad. Art college...
by Patrick | Dec 29, 2016 | art, art as language, Lifestyle
I have been a collector most of my life. At ten I was collecting matchbox toys. At 12 it was British and Commonwealth postage stamps. At 16 it was Cypriot wine bottle labels. In art college, I began looking at collecting the work of other artists, starting with work...
by Patrick | Dec 11, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I was asked the other day about the transition from being an art student to establishing my own practice as an artist. The individual asking was working in a major public collection looking after the works in the museum gallery, but had trained as a fine artist. This...
by Patrick | Dec 1, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting
Slowly, slowly I am getting back to working in the studio. I am generally an optimist, some have called me a gambler, a risk taker, but that has been my life, and has enabled me to advance both in art and design, and to succeed, fail, succeed again in business. Cancer...
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