by Patrick | Jun 9, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment
I have been using a digital camera now for some 15 years. My first had a marvellous 2.5-megapixel sensor, my latest comes in at 55-megapixels. A bit like the early days of computers the process of development has engulfed photographers in upgrade after expensive...
by Patrick | May 29, 2016 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
There is a proverb and a prayer withall, That we may not to three strange places fall; From Hull, from Hell, from Halifax, ’tis this, From all these three, Good Lord, deliver us. This praying proverb’s meaning to set down, Men do not wish deliverance from...
by Patrick | Apr 2, 2016 | Environment
The soft susurrations of shingle stones in Sussex on calm days are few by comparison with the shattering crash of waves in mad March days. Pebbles can be thrown hundreds of feet by forceful waves measured on the Channel wave buoy at nearly 14metres from peak to...
by Patrick | Feb 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, painting, pastels
Spring is sprung in the garden. The occasional night drops below zero and we have the occasional frost but the daffodils are out, crocuses abound and everything is popping into bud. The right time to start a new piece of work and do a bit of a spring clean to the...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting
As a student in the 1960’s I produced so called ‘Op Art’ paintings and sculpture, and ever since I have been fascinated by the capability of paint on canvas to affect emotions and distort representations of space through the eye. Wikipedia credits Victor Vasarely as...
by Patrick | Jan 21, 2016 | art, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle
In 1871 Chicago had its fire. Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern in the barn. The city was built of timber – not just houses but boardwalks, road blocks, fences – and with the weather tinder dry, four square miles went up in flames as the...
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