by Patrick | Jun 24, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, BRotS, drawing, Environment, painting, photography
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas With the addition of a photographic record of decay, the four books of images of paintings and...
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...
by Patrick | Sep 4, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Merlyn spelt with y not with an i. Yet what magic do you weave as English Merlins do. Time too weaves its magic, and meeting after over 50 years was a strange dislocation of the time/space continuum. Whilst I have come across you in the professional world as a name it...
by Patrick | Aug 14, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels, photography
Life is complicated. Living is a process. Plan it all you want but interruptions to the process are inevitable whether from internal failure or external forces, physical, emotional, financial. Life is like that. When an artist starts on a journey of discovery through...
by Patrick | Jun 13, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Sculpture
I am a painter not a sculptor. We think differently. I did work as a designer of interiors and products – chairs, lights, carpets and commissioned sculpture, so I do have experience of working in the three dimensions a sculptor works in, not just two, although my work...
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