by Patrick | Aug 2, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
The gap between this and my last post is nearly a month. Longer than I wanted it to be. But the words to describe the processes and drivers of the last month have been difficult, if not impossible to find. I thought of calling this ‘Cancer and Windflower’ following on...
by Patrick | Jul 7, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, Uncategorized
Gradually my spirits have risen as my health appears to have improved. I say ‘appears’ as when I wrote in January about emerging from the tunnel of fear that cancer creates I did have at the back of my mind the old joke about the light at the ends of the tunnel being...
by Patrick | Jun 9, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment
I have been using a digital camera now for some 15 years. My first had a marvellous 2.5-megapixel sensor, my latest comes in at 55-megapixels. A bit like the early days of computers the process of development has engulfed photographers in upgrade after expensive...
by Patrick | May 30, 2016 | art, art as language, painting, pastels
“I think therefore I am” 17th century philosopher Descartes doubted everything he said and began his treatise by saying that everything he knew was false. By denying everything, he can begin his argument free and clear of prejudice, with an open and innocent mind....
by Patrick | May 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing
Sussex has many pretty villages, and Ditchling shows how many are being spoiled by traffic and their identities being subsumed into the metropolitan urbanity. The centre of Ditchling is the traffic jammed mini-roundabout, and of the rural lifestyle that attracted...
by Patrick | May 13, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Remembrance
The writing was on the wall in Europe long before 1939. Hitler came to power in 1933, the culmination of a series of economic and political catastrophes across Europe. Churchill warned a complacent British political class (aren’t they always?) of the dangers on the...
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