by Patrick | Jun 20, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Op Art, painting
In my blog at the end of January I wrote “I hope to explore more loosely the colour ideas” that I was exploring in drawings based on the BRotS series. Slowly this has come together, interrupted by a long sojourn in South Africa and the time spent focussed on health...
by Patrick | May 20, 2018 | art, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
A week ago composer John Kerr wrote: “Just got home from doing my very last concert together with Ron Boots and Harold van der Heijden… so here’s another short excerpt from my album “prelude to a requiem”. release: 16th September on my 70th...
by Patrick | May 9, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
As an art student in the 1960’s I worked every vacation. It started when I was a Foundation student (pre-dip in those days) in Stafford Art College. My parents were living in married quarters at the RAF apprentice school in Cosford (now a rather spectacular part of...
by Patrick | Feb 23, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, photography
“Painting is washed up. Who will ever do anything better than that propeller? Tell me, can you do that?”. Marcel Duchamp 1912 It started with Duchamp’s signature on a urinal. Making a point? Or just a comment on the art around him? Was it really saying...
by Patrick | Jan 29, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
They were used in industry to tease out threads from wool for spinning. Using photographs and drawings I am teasing out ideas about expressing their structure through colour on both canvas, and if I can figure out a simple way of doing it, in 3D too. I have been...
by Patrick | Jan 24, 2018 | art, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel, wilderness
“It’s your Christmas present” she said, “a week in Lanzarote. The sun will help your healing”. Yes, a year after operations we still think of my healing. I have added over a half inch of muscle on my thighs, starting to rebuild the 4 inches I lost in hospital. My love...
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