by Patrick | Oct 11, 2015 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance
Grey narrow streets carry the dust of ages. Pale blue skies and sunshine throw shade echoing the dark shadows that are the past of this ancient town. Ghosts walk the street – kings and bishops past are referenced at every turn by buildings that date back to the 12th...
by Patrick | Aug 31, 2015 | art, Design, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
In recent years there seems to have been a resurgence in pride in creating quintessentially English interiors. At all levels of the hospitality market interior design practices have been producing design solutions that are recognisably within an English tradition....
by Patrick | Aug 6, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels
On June 2nd I wrote about starting work on the honeysuckle images. Now, over 2 months later and physiotherapy completed, I am able to get into the swing of playing with colour and imagery. The gap out of the studio has made it difficult to get the work flowing, but...
by Patrick | Jul 27, 2015 | drawing, Lifestyle, painting
Recently I had dinner with a designer becoming exhausted with the stress of running a large (and very successful) practice. Disillusioned with client relations they were coming to terms with the designer as the elite of the servant classes, rather than being a member...
by Patrick | Jul 18, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting
In the hotel world Mr. Hilton’s strictures that hotels profitability is all about ‘location, location, location’ is probably one of the most quoted. In the world of artists less attention is paid to where the artist is working, unless it obviously impacts their work....
by Patrick | Jul 15, 2015 | drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance
Blimey, I didn’t expect one photograph to generate this kind of response, but as one person said “it is the silly season”. In my last blog I talked about the impact of the large sensor in the Canon 5Ds. To begin with I went with my thirst for colour and the...
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