by Patrick | Aug 13, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
Open your studio for visitors. Sound easy, doesn’t it? Ha! Sometimes there is hardly room for me to fit in between the piles of tape, open stretchers with rough cut canvas draped over them, dirty palettes, rolls of paper leaning in corners, three easels, unfinished or...
by Patrick | Aug 2, 2019 | education, Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Travel, Uncategorized
Just 16 houses and a flint church. I pulled up on the area of grass in front of the churchyard. As I opened the car door the scent of crushed grass filled my nostrils. A wood pigeon cooed and stared down at me from the round spire of the church. A crow gave a single...
by Patrick | Jul 30, 2019 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
“Thank you” our boatman and river guide said, “thank you for spending the day on the river and thank you for coming to Botswana, your tourism means so much to us”. Botswana has one of the highest living standards in Southern Africa, is its oldest democracy and is one...
by Patrick | Jun 21, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Every day I wander out in my dressing gown to take roughly the same image. I thought of marking the path and setting up a tripod to make it exactly the same shot, but life is too short, and the camera varies. So, todays image is number 1,269 in the series. Given...
by Patrick | Jun 17, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
I’ve stalled. Again! I know what I need to do – head down, centralise direction and wait for the speed to rise, nose to lift and full flight recover. At the moment the spin continues as I racket back and forwards – working on another peg series that is enjoyable but...
by Patrick | May 16, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
“The artist has one role: to see on behalf of other people. Each tries to make small steps forward in seeing for he is the one whose eye and brain should be in union and accord” says Tom Philips RA in Tom Philips, ‘Words and Texts’ Thames and Hudson 1992 I spent many...
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