by Patrick | Feb 7, 2021 | art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, photography, Uncategorized
Abstraction that is not abstraction. Tiptoeing around reality. What exactly do these statements mean? In my mind they mean looking hard and seeing what others do not, seeing the normally unseen, a little like those childhood games where you are challenged to recognise...
by Patrick | Jan 29, 2021 | art, art as language, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, wilderness
Like many artists I had an exhibition pulled in the pandemic. The gallery remains closed and will probably still be closed until the summer, indeed may never reopen. The private sector of the gallery system, never healthy at the best of times, will retreat into...
by Patrick | Jan 2, 2021 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography, Uncategorized
It has been a while since I walked down to Cuckmere Haven. During COVID lockdown I kept hearing rumours of it being overrun with visitors and the road up to my usual parking place, Seaford’s Barn, was jammed with cars. Then I began to hear from friends, aware I was...
by Patrick | Dec 20, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography, Travel
Among the many images I have collected of the #BRotS (see The Bridget Riley of the Shingle for explanation) are images of the defences at the mouth of the Cuckmere, part of a system aimed at protecting the internationally famous and genuinely iconic Coastguard...
by Patrick | Nov 23, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels
With the BRotS #20 completed it was time to move on to canvas. You’ll know from my previous piece how I see the division between the research works on paper and what I regard as the more formal realisation of ideas on canvas – the mythmaking and then the ritual....
by Patrick | Nov 13, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, painting, photography
“Another example from the average surfer’s perspective: imagine a 20-inch thick wave lip, only 3.2 feet wide, in a summer three-foot wave. Total weight? A solid 1100 pounds.” From ‘SurferToday’ The waves start in the...
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