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...
by Patrick | Feb 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, painting, pastels
Spring is sprung in the garden. The occasional night drops below zero and we have the occasional frost but the daffodils are out, crocuses abound and everything is popping into bud. The right time to start a new piece of work and do a bit of a spring clean to the...
by Patrick | Feb 7, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels
I first started working with images of geraniums back in the 1970’s, alongside paintings using tulips, crocosmia, honeysuckle and lupins, all of which were grown in my own garden. Moving to Seaford a few years ago introduced me to a different type of geranium, and...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting
As a student in the 1960’s I produced so called ‘Op Art’ paintings and sculpture, and ever since I have been fascinated by the capability of paint on canvas to affect emotions and distort representations of space through the eye. Wikipedia credits Victor Vasarely as...
by Patrick | Jan 2, 2016 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle
An artist friend of mine spent Christmas in Bangkok. They wrote to me saying: “I could not get over the tension and apocalyptic nature of the street experience I have been sensing in Asia. I started to break down the elements I was reacting to and analyzing my...
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