by Patrick | Oct 11, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, Remembrance
There has been a Ravilious room at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery for quite a long time. Reworking now in a generous and long overdue space liberated by the addition of new galleries downstairs breathes new life into appreciating his short-lived genius. Ravilious is an...
by Patrick | Sep 29, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Steps
It started with the weather images. Today I take them with a sophisticated digital camera (so far 3,600 images) but I started them in pre-digital times as small gouache paintings done very quickly and very small from my back doorstep in Lancashire. There I delighted...
by Patrick | Sep 10, 2025 | art, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle
I’m a sucker for much of Victorian design. Inventive, creative, the birth of the machine age unleashed a wave of design, and the Victorians built an art college in every major English town to act as a seedbed for creative and revolutionary thinking. Whilst...
by Patrick | Jul 29, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
I was asleep but uncomfortable. It felt like there was a hot water bottle against my back. Yes of course it was the cat – progressed from walking along my spine to just waiting and heating. Blearily I looked at my watch. Just after six. Sun is rising. Yeah OK Sid, I...
by Patrick | Jul 2, 2025 | art, Design, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
Many wail about declining numbers of working people, using it to justify the invasion of ill-educated, frequently low IQ, predominantly male migrant workers to provide the labour they think we need, flying in the face of the evidence that automation and new working...
by Patrick | May 20, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Steps
The grid paintings dominated my artistic output for many years, symbolic of the systems and structures our governments put in place to control us, the colour breaking free of the grid’s constraints. Almost the last of these was the Brexit Daisy (now in a private...
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