by Patrick | Jan 4, 2014 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance
I wasted two days this week searching for missing photographs of Verdun. In my new studio I was finishing a triptych of drawings based in the colours from the images taken on a visit to this killing ground of WW1. In Verdun birds still don’t sing. Over half a...
by Patrick | Dec 21, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle
Many people look AT the world rather than looking INTO it. I suggested previously that “many have no visual memory because most people simply have never been taught to look”. When my father was teaching me to use the wood/graphite interface we owned no...
by Patrick | Dec 14, 2013 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Dad taught me to see, taught me to draw. He had an artistic side that rarely found any outlet. He did a little marquetry but enjoyed teaching me how to image a ship’s bow looming up, how to image a Spitfire wing growing realistically off a fuselage. He made me...
by Patrick | Dec 8, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle
I was brought up a ‘service brat’. When your father is in the services you move every three years or so. But you are not alone in this, all the kids in the married quarters around you have dads whose postings rarely coincide with yours. So you make...
by Patrick | Dec 1, 2013 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
The day started with cancellations. #Southern, our local rail company, seems incapable of running a railway properly. The morning was despoiled by cancellations on our branch line, and I had a call from OH to rescue her day trip to London. Dashing to the station I ran...
by Patrick | Nov 23, 2013 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Seaford’s seashore is a single shingle bank. Not a beach it seems but actually Seaford’s sea defence system. Some say this sea defence was made necessary by the extensions to Newhaven harbour, and the wakes of the larger vessels going in to the port which scoured away...
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