by Patrick | Dec 3, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Environment, Op Art, painting, photography
In my last piece To See or Not to See I talked about photography. It was of course the driver behind much of the change in artistic perception, from Muybridge to commercial soap adverts (Bubbles), all building and subtly altering the way people see or use their...
by Patrick | Nov 12, 2021 | art, art as language, BRotS, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography
“All art can have the power of poetic revelation about the material world – it can reveal the ensoulment of the universe.” – Hugh Conway Morris “Whether it is a wheat field by Van Gogh, a grass field by Wyeth, a picnic table by Caulfield or an unmade bed...
by Patrick | Sep 1, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
During ArtWave 21 I have been asked to participate in the ‘Celebrate Cuckmere’ exhibition at the South Hill Barn, a newish venue in the South Downs National Park on the edge of Seaford, because of the work and essays I have written about the sea defences...
by Patrick | Aug 16, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting
Coming soon is the Art Wave 21 festival for which I will be putting up a little more of a show in the studio, details below: Location 083 • Trust in Rust 2 Headland Avenue, Seaford BN25 4PY Off Southdown Road, 4th house on the right Patrick Goff has been absorbed in...
by Patrick | Jul 4, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
I don’t enjoy drawing in public. I mean by that working away with a cluster of people, ebbing and flowing, constantly changing, peering over my shoulder. I used to work in the studio when teaching but then always prepared to talk to my students about what I was doing,...
by Patrick | Jun 22, 2021 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, wilderness
In an early memory from my childhood, one of the first pieces of music to ever stick with me, Sparky searches for his lost singing voice (listen to it at Sparky’s Magic Echo – YouTube). Released in 1949 this must have been a radio piece I listened to as a...
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