by Patrick | Jul 19, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, education, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
“This happy band of men, this little world This precious stone set in silver sea This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, This England” Shakespeare’s Richard II “The centuries have left their enduring mark on the land and its people in the form of age...
by Patrick | Jun 10, 2023 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, Uncategorized
End to a long hot day. A trip into Eastbourne to see the Hepworth exhibition again. On return the drive around the road passing Beachy Head and Birling Gap. When empty it is a delight to drive quickly, but today is slow, rubber neckers behind tourist buses. The padre...
by Patrick | May 15, 2023 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
In Such is Life I catalogued my adventures in the NHS over the years. That was written two years ago, and deterioration has continued. As a result, so have the operations. Maybe because of the removal of part of my blood circulation I have been becoming increasingly...
by Patrick | Mar 20, 2023 | Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
(This is the second of the memoires for nephews and grandchildren requested by them to help them remember and honour their grandad) I have dad’s wartime record but not his own flight book, which was burned at the end of the war. He said lots of them were burned, the...
by Patrick | Feb 20, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
“Entropy is the process in nature that tends to return all things to their original state.” Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We commit…. I sit at my keyboard with a pile of photographs of my mother and father getting married surrounded by the other members of the...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
Attracted to the glamour of a career in art and design, new students would arrive in college for their Foundation course, in effect the first year of a four-year degree programme. There are (or were) over 46 disciplines offered under the banner of art and design...
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