by Patrick | Jun 22, 2024 | art, Design, photography, Remembrance, Sculpture, Uncategorized
Mary who? I tried to find her in my art reference books. Mary Seton Watts, wife of the Victorian establishment painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts (1817 – 1904), and he is definitely in the books. First British artist to have a gallery devoted just to him, it...
by Patrick | Mar 7, 2024 | Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
The only town in Britain whose name ends in an exclamation mark sits on the North Devon coast. Nearby is the beautiful little town of Bideford, perhaps one of the most beautiful places I have visited in recent years. It was here in the 19th century that the novel...
by Patrick | Dec 31, 2023 | art, Design, education, Lifestyle, painting, Uncategorized
Nancy and Jim visited today. Nancy was one of the senior assistants in Olga Polizzi’s office at Forte and was the person who approved my design practice as one of the group of practices working on Forte hotels in the 1980’s. She and Jim wanted to know how Goff...
by Patrick | Dec 20, 2023 | Design, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel
Why do I go cruising? This was only my second cruise, and my partner has booked a third, to Iceland. So why? I spent nearly 20 years driving thousands of miles through Europe, Southern Africa and the States reviewing hotels for my online magazine, after a previous 20...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It’s where the past is hit by the future. The past is sedimentary and igneous rocks that formed the earth; the future is the waves that smash onto them loaded with shingle driven by sun, the moon, winds and tides, the sea reputedly where life started. Man...
by Patrick | Sep 17, 2023 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting
There are now some 230+ articles on my artistic process and the life experiences that have moulded it, including of course a series of pieces on art education in which I was involved as a student and then a lecturer/course leaders/HOD for a number of years as well as...
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