In Praise of Colour

In Praise of Colour

by | Jul 6, 2015 | art, Environment, Lifestyle

In 2000 I bought my first digital camera, a Sony Mavica. It took images that were 1600 x 1200 pixels and took poor quality video as well as stills. The images were good enough for web publishing in the days when we all had telephone link-ups with their characteristic...
Grid Lock

Grid Lock

by | May 25, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, pastels

We use grids daily. Sometimes we don’t recognise them as grids, such as in a carpark. Sometimes we label them with other names such as ‘cells’ when in a spreadsheet for example, or ‘apartments’ in a block of flats. Pixels in digital imagery work as a grid – keep...
A Tea Breeze

A Tea Breeze

by | May 19, 2015 | art, Environment, Lifestyle

The wind came off the sea, fast and hard. Hitting the 300 foot high cliff face it shot upwards joining forces with higher level wind to bend and blast across the path. Birds didn’t take off, they just opened their wings and the wind lifted them into the sky, hurling...
Hanging About

Hanging About

by | Mar 3, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, pastels

I rarely drive across a drawbridge. Especially one where the door have to be held back, their ancient bolt heads securing the planks barely an inch either side of the car. All the while martial music played through the loudspeakers. The rutted cobbles made the...
It’s all a Performance

It’s all a Performance

by | Feb 17, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting

The British NHS is a bit like flypaper. Once it wraps itself around you there is no escape. Don’t get me wrong – the Health Service saved my life as a child in the 1950’s with an early application of antibiotics, despite my apparently being at death’s door. It...