by Patrick | May 16, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
“The artist has one role: to see on behalf of other people. Each tries to make small steps forward in seeing for he is the one whose eye and brain should be in union and accord” says Tom Philips RA in Tom Philips, ‘Words and Texts’ Thames and Hudson 1992 I spent many...
by Patrick | Apr 28, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
A while ago I wrote about seeing art around me. Probably a major part of that vision is my training and 50 years of experience in the art and design business. It is not a secret world though, but one that everyone can enjoy. Picasso talked of the child like innocence...
by Patrick | Mar 24, 2019 | Design, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
Place: Kasbah Angour, Tahanaout, Nr. Marrakech, Morocco Type: 4-star Hotel Operator: Owner and Creator Paul Foulsham Web: www.Kasbahangour.com Date of Visit: March 2019 A man with a dream – no, a Yorkshireman with a dream. A geologist working for oil companies buys a...
by Patrick | Jan 1, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It began with memories. All my life I have moved around, and after leaving Brighton for the wetlands known as Lancashire, I began to record those memories in visual form. It would have been easy to work from photographs but those would only have caught an instance,...
by Patrick | Dec 16, 2018 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance
No “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir” and the only stately galleons were the rain squalls sailing majestically up the Channel as I walk the shingle shore. Closer to the water the smaller stones glistened like “diamonds, emeralds, amethysts, topazes, and...
by Patrick | Dec 5, 2018 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I have written 3 pieces previously about my efforts to learn to be a bell ringer. My goal was to ring in the international remembrance ring on the 11th November, which I did, an emotional moment, but I have continued to learn, progressing to rounds and beginning to...
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