by Patrick | Mar 4, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Readers of my 280+ blog posts will have followed my travails through cancer, spinal injuries, arthritis etc as I have worked with camera and paintbrush to respond to the beauty of our world. I have sought beauty even as England allows decay to rule in a wanton...
by Patrick | Dec 31, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
In my work documenting decay on the English South Coast I walk with a camera and record what I see with a view to taking it into the studio to process into paintings. This is a developmental path well known since the 19th century, flowering in the 20th in the work of...
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...
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