by Patrick | Dec 11, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I was asked the other day about the transition from being an art student to establishing my own practice as an artist. The individual asking was working in a major public collection looking after the works in the museum gallery, but had trained as a fine artist. This...
by Patrick | Dec 1, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting
Slowly, slowly I am getting back to working in the studio. I am generally an optimist, some have called me a gambler, a risk taker, but that has been my life, and has enabled me to advance both in art and design, and to succeed, fail, succeed again in business. Cancer...
by Patrick | Nov 11, 2016 | Lifestyle, Uncategorized
It didn’t start well. The show was hung, and the private view was going well, but I was starting to feel increasingly unwell. One of the visitors said my painting made her heart sing, but I was inarticulate, barely able to hold a conversation, not an intelligent one...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2016 | art, Lifestyle, painting
It’s just on three months since I had the nephrostomy. Three months with a catheter into my kidney draining wastes into a bag strapped to my leg. Three months of this sploshing as a half full bag of piss moves against my leg as I walk. Three months of this warm damp...
by Patrick | Oct 11, 2016 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Eighteen months is a long time, in any world not just, as they say, in politics. In the Seaford art world it is bringing changes as the Crypt Gallery becomes a trust, the gallery being leased by the council to a charitable trust formed by the Friends. Eighteen months...
by Patrick | Oct 2, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Autumn is when we begin to wonder why every year Britain is not prepared for winter. Autumn is when trains don’t run because of leaves on the line. Or a low sun in the eyes of the drivers. Or flooded rails. Or fallen trees. Autumn gives frost warnings, and the weather...
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