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...
by Patrick | Oct 2, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
For over eighteen months I have been working from images of my local sea defences, fascinated by the complexities of colour and texture generated by their decay. Sheet metal supposedly protecting the concrete structure that in turn protects a sewer treatment outfall,...
by Patrick | Sep 1, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
During ArtWave 21 I have been asked to participate in the ‘Celebrate Cuckmere’ exhibition at the South Hill Barn, a newish venue in the South Downs National Park on the edge of Seaford, because of the work and essays I have written about the sea defences...
by Patrick | Aug 5, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
For almost a year I have worked through the paintings on paper and canvas (drawings and canvases?) producing 14 canvases and some 60+ works on paper. Immersed in the process I have changed my techniques and the way I use paint. Strangely I think the initial impulse...
by Patrick | Jul 10, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Op Art, painting, photography
As a first-year degree student I found myself in a small group being challenged by Michael Kidner and his partner in crime Adrian Heath to create a ‘light modular’ in which pairs of colours of the same tonality would, when photographed in black and white, show as a...
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