by Patrick | Apr 3, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, painting, pastels, photography
We live in a world of ‘alt: news’ apparently, this being a world where people cannot tell fact from fiction. Supposedly an ‘alternate reality’ in which how they see the world is not the same as how you might see the world. I accept that all facts are capable of...
by Patrick | Mar 7, 2017 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance
I’ve been living in Seaford, East Sussex, for over 3 years now, and to my embarrassment I still have boxes in the studio unpacked since moving. Spurred on by a clear out of the garage as a part of a refurbishment of the ground floor of the house, I decided it was time...
by Patrick | Feb 2, 2017 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
It stands erect, ringed in red and white. The dark wilderness of its base set aside from the billowing white up swelling of the chalk cliffs behind it. Thrusting upwards in public warning, its tip glazed and different to its shaft, it stands out by day attracting the...
by Patrick | Sep 23, 2016 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, painting
It’s been a long road to the studio in Seaford, and time has taken its toll on my body, if not my mind. Testing time through which my art and my lover have sustained me. It has been quite a journey. When I left college I worked as a bar/cellar man for four or five...
by Patrick | Jul 7, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, Uncategorized
Gradually my spirits have risen as my health appears to have improved. I say ‘appears’ as when I wrote in January about emerging from the tunnel of fear that cancer creates I did have at the back of my mind the old joke about the light at the ends of the tunnel being...
by Patrick | Jun 25, 2016 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
I was brought up a ‘service brat’. I am the son of a man whose adult life, from age 16 to 53 was spent serving his country. My father came from a poor background. Grandma and grandad lived in a council house in Bromborough in the Wirral, just across the Mersey from...
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