by Patrick | Jul 15, 2024 | art, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, wilderness
One of the first things I do in the morning in my every day routine is as I come downstairs, I turn right while the cat sits and waits, posing. He knows what I’m doing, I’m going to turn on the computer and collect the camera from the office. I then return past the...
by Patrick | Jun 4, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, painting, photography, Travel, wilderness
Now the Turner prize has gone, and we have our gallery back. Still not free of the corrosive Arts Council social work arts programme, but ignore the excrescence on the ground floor, despite its claim using the Bayeux Tapestry to justify the size of its awfulness. No,...
by Patrick | Mar 1, 2024 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
As the rain continues, one commentator remarked that “Alfriston is afloat”. Flooding from the Cuckmere is commonplace around the village and its church, the ‘Cathedral of the South Downs’, and only increases as the Environment Agency allows the sea defences at the...
by Patrick | May 15, 2023 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
In Such is Life I catalogued my adventures in the NHS over the years. That was written two years ago, and deterioration has continued. As a result, so have the operations. Maybe because of the removal of part of my blood circulation I have been becoming increasingly...
by Patrick | Aug 27, 2022 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel, wilderness
South Barn It has been a dry hot summer. The Barn is known for having no heating, not being wind proof, sometimes not even waterproof, and today there is one of those miserable damp misty sea fret sort of days. Perched on Seaford Head the rest of the South Downs...
by Patrick | Aug 15, 2022 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, photography, wilderness
The harvest is gathered, the dry weather making harvesting more predictable than in most English summers. The converse, of course, is that there is little fresh grass for stock, so farmers are already beginning to use their winter feed as they wait, much as those of...
Recent Comments