by Patrick | Apr 10, 2019 | Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance
A year on from first attending a ringing practice. Time passes, and milestones drift by. I was one of the 3,000+ people recruited to take part in the global Remembrance ring for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War in which over 1,400 ringers...
by Patrick | Mar 24, 2019 | Design, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
Place: Kasbah Angour, Tahanaout, Nr. Marrakech, Morocco Type: 4-star Hotel Operator: Owner and Creator Paul Foulsham Web: www.Kasbahangour.com Date of Visit: March 2019 A man with a dream – no, a Yorkshireman with a dream. A geologist working for oil companies buys a...
by Patrick | Feb 19, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
My Workshop experience Understanding workshop experience of nearly 100 years ago without access to original sources is difficult. My own experience probably stands in stark contrast with that of a student at the Bauhaus. Life would have been very different for a...
by Patrick | Jan 25, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Art school in the 1960 has been mythologised by succeeding generations. I understand that, and also those who say if you can remember it you weren’t there. That myth paints a picture of institutions that had no rules, but that is completely wrong, and it is because of...
by Patrick | Jan 18, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
A couple of years ago a magazine in New York used some of my images of the city taken in bicentennial year, 1976, photographed on Kodak slide film on my first visit to the USA. Amongst them was an image of the then revolutionary TWA Flight Centre. Also known as the...
by Patrick | Jan 1, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It began with memories. All my life I have moved around, and after leaving Brighton for the wetlands known as Lancashire, I began to record those memories in visual form. It would have been easy to work from photographs but those would only have caught an instance,...
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