by Patrick | Aug 5, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography, Uncategorized
It’s been a tough year. Is that what happens as one ages – each year gets tougher? Physically I have always tried to exercise, even buying a share in a central London gym once at the height of the gym investment craze. Great place to exercise. Went bust of course. I...
by Patrick | Jul 16, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
The Renaissance was a period of renewal and innovation during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries: in painting characterised by innovations in paint technology and perception. Some, like Utrillo in his history paintings, focussed on the newly formalised system of...
by Patrick | May 21, 2022 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Garden, painting, photography, Uncategorized, wilderness
Blue shades through turquoise into green. Much as blue shades an infinite number so too does grass as a simple study of the lawn shows. How do you study grass? I recommend a sunny afternoon, lying down listening to the life in grass, studying the scents and listening...
by Patrick | May 12, 2022 | art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Uncategorized
I started to look at definitions of ‘Blue’ in writing the previous blog on the colour. My 1954 dictionary (a thick tome I grew up using after dad bought the dictionary and the 8 volume ‘Book of Knowledge’ from a door-to-door salesman) states “Ancient colour words are...
by Patrick | Apr 8, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Berlin Liberation 1945 “Frau, komm” The Soviet soldier’s pidgin-German command to females he encountered became the words every woman in Berlin from 17 to 70 knew and dreaded” From ‘The Berlin Wall’ by Frederick Taylor Ukraine Liberation 2022 It seems despite the fall...
by Patrick | Feb 10, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, BRotS, drawing, Environment, painting, photography, wilderness
Breaking out of the BRotS, although really a part of the same oeuvre, are the Fisherman’s Tackle paintings. They continue to explore the waste and decay of the Cuckmere and Seaford sea defences. Cuckmere is a river mouth so like Birling Gap it’s softer ground for the...
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