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...
by Patrick | Nov 10, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
Classic question, isn’t it? Everyone’s response when you say you paint, occasionally bitten off halfway through when the questioner realises the foolishness of asking. “I do flower paintings” is my standard riposte to this question. An answer as misleading as the...
by Patrick | Oct 11, 2016 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Eighteen months is a long time, in any world not just, as they say, in politics. In the Seaford art world it is bringing changes as the Crypt Gallery becomes a trust, the gallery being leased by the council to a charitable trust formed by the Friends. Eighteen months...
by Patrick | Oct 2, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Autumn is when we begin to wonder why every year Britain is not prepared for winter. Autumn is when trains don’t run because of leaves on the line. Or a low sun in the eyes of the drivers. Or flooded rails. Or fallen trees. Autumn gives frost warnings, and the weather...
by Patrick | Sep 6, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art
I am an early riser. I normally wake around 6.30 and wander downstairs in my dressing gown. Usually I pick up a camera and head into the garden to take my morning photograph. The camera is heavy, the back door locked, the cat demanding. The cat is given a thorough...
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