by Patrick | Oct 2, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Autumn is when we begin to wonder why every year Britain is not prepared for winter. Autumn is when trains don’t run because of leaves on the line. Or a low sun in the eyes of the drivers. Or flooded rails. Or fallen trees. Autumn gives frost warnings, and the weather...
by Patrick | Sep 6, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art
I am an early riser. I normally wake around 6.30 and wander downstairs in my dressing gown. Usually I pick up a camera and head into the garden to take my morning photograph. The camera is heavy, the back door locked, the cat demanding. The cat is given a thorough...
by Patrick | Aug 19, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels
‘Honeysuckle Sun’ I called this image first time around. Still I come back to this photography and drawing of honeysuckle, twisting and turning as I try to resolve the balance between the photographs, the drawings and the paintings. The drawings have become perhaps...
by Patrick | Aug 2, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
The gap between this and my last post is nearly a month. Longer than I wanted it to be. But the words to describe the processes and drivers of the last month have been difficult, if not impossible to find. I thought of calling this ‘Cancer and Windflower’ following on...
by Patrick | Jul 7, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, Uncategorized
Gradually my spirits have risen as my health appears to have improved. I say ‘appears’ as when I wrote in January about emerging from the tunnel of fear that cancer creates I did have at the back of my mind the old joke about the light at the ends of the tunnel being...
by Patrick | Jun 9, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment
I have been using a digital camera now for some 15 years. My first had a marvellous 2.5-megapixel sensor, my latest comes in at 55-megapixels. A bit like the early days of computers the process of development has engulfed photographers in upgrade after expensive...
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