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...
by Patrick | Feb 20, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
“Entropy is the process in nature that tends to return all things to their original state.” Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We commit…. I sit at my keyboard with a pile of photographs of my mother and father getting married surrounded by the other members of the...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
Attracted to the glamour of a career in art and design, new students would arrive in college for their Foundation course, in effect the first year of a four-year degree programme. There are (or were) over 46 disciplines offered under the banner of art and design...
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