by Patrick | Feb 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, painting, pastels
Spring is sprung in the garden. The occasional night drops below zero and we have the occasional frost but the daffodils are out, crocuses abound and everything is popping into bud. The right time to start a new piece of work and do a bit of a spring clean to the...
by Patrick | Feb 7, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels
I first started working with images of geraniums back in the 1970’s, alongside paintings using tulips, crocosmia, honeysuckle and lupins, all of which were grown in my own garden. Moving to Seaford a few years ago introduced me to a different type of geranium, and...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting
As a student in the 1960’s I produced so called ‘Op Art’ paintings and sculpture, and ever since I have been fascinated by the capability of paint on canvas to affect emotions and distort representations of space through the eye. Wikipedia credits Victor Vasarely as...
by Patrick | Jan 21, 2016 | art, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle
In 1871 Chicago had its fire. Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern in the barn. The city was built of timber – not just houses but boardwalks, road blocks, fences – and with the weather tinder dry, four square miles went up in flames as the...
by Patrick | Dec 11, 2015 | art, drawing, Op Art, pastels
It has become such a global cliché. Around the world photographs by the thousand capture the glory of earth’s sunsets. I’m no exception to the happy snapper brigade, even though in Seaford the celebrations of this daily event tend to be moderated by cloud, rain, mist...
by Patrick | Nov 24, 2015 | art, drawing, pastels
Seaford continually delights and inspires. I have a walk to get bread, newspaper etc. that takes me up the cliffs and down again along the beach. In December last year I took a series of snapshots of the setting sun, glorying in the outrageous colours (making the...
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