by Patrick | Dec 31, 2023 | art, Design, education, Lifestyle, painting, Uncategorized
Nancy and Jim visited today. Nancy was one of the senior assistants in Olga Polizzi’s office at Forte and was the person who approved my design practice as one of the group of practices working on Forte hotels in the 1980’s. She and Jim wanted to know how Goff...
by Patrick | Dec 20, 2023 | Design, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel
Why do I go cruising? This was only my second cruise, and my partner has booked a third, to Iceland. So why? I spent nearly 20 years driving thousands of miles through Europe, Southern Africa and the States reviewing hotels for my online magazine, after a previous 20...
by Patrick | Dec 11, 2023 | art as language, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography
Once Upon a Time there was a writer of fairy tales, Hands Christian Andiscat. Known as the ‘whether-man’, every day he would emerge from beneath his warm bedding and wrapped in his dressing gown Hans would sally forth into the garden where he would try to feel whether...
by Patrick | Nov 11, 2023 | art, art as language, education, Lifestyle
I have written a number of pieces on this website about art education. In my now 60-year career in both art, design and ‘publishing’ I have spent time teaching in college environments. Some of this teaching has been done in FE, running successful Foundation Courses...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It’s where the past is hit by the future. The past is sedimentary and igneous rocks that formed the earth; the future is the waves that smash onto them loaded with shingle driven by sun, the moon, winds and tides, the sea reputedly where life started. Man...
by Patrick | Sep 17, 2023 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting
There are now some 230+ articles on my artistic process and the life experiences that have moulded it, including of course a series of pieces on art education in which I was involved as a student and then a lecturer/course leaders/HOD for a number of years as well as...
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