by Patrick | Sep 27, 2019 | art, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Our Armed Forces are at their lowest levels for many years, and are experiencing problems retaining trained personnel. Some of this will be due to problems with making proper provision for servicemen and women with families, something our civil Servants are not good...
by Patrick | Sep 4, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, Garden, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
“The party’s over, it’s time to call it a day They’ve burst your pretty balloon, and taken the moon away It’s time to wind up the masquerade” Bobby Darin 1962 No, it’s not about Brexit, but @ArtWaveFestival is over for another year, and it is time to turn the studio...
by Patrick | Aug 24, 2019 | art, art as language, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels, photography, Uncategorized
It starts with a gentle stroll around the garden, checking signage is still OK. An amble that develops into pulling out weeds, unwrapping convolvulus, uprooting dandelions, tearing out thistles. I spot some convolvulus wrapping itself around the still scented...
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...
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