by Patrick | Aug 15, 2022 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, photography, wilderness
The harvest is gathered, the dry weather making harvesting more predictable than in most English summers. The converse, of course, is that there is little fresh grass for stock, so farmers are already beginning to use their winter feed as they wait, much as those of...
by Patrick | Jun 14, 2022 | art, art as language, education, Lifestyle, oil, painting, photography, Uncategorized
I sat in the garden thinking (I do that a lot, maybe too much) and remembering the trip to the South African Delaire vineyard to see one of the most popular iconic paintings of the 1950’s and 60’s. Some say it rivals the Mona Lisa as a painting…(cough)… I remember...
by Patrick | Aug 5, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
For almost a year I have worked through the paintings on paper and canvas (drawings and canvases?) producing 14 canvases and some 60+ works on paper. Immersed in the process I have changed my techniques and the way I use paint. Strangely I think the initial impulse...
by Patrick | Aug 2, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, education, oil
Following on from Making a Painting The next video in the series looks at the starting point (30) Starting the painting – YouTube
by Patrick | Jan 6, 2021 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
Time for a little about how I’m working. I am fortunate to have a dedicated studio, not large but a bit bigger than the space I had as a student at Cosham in the 1960’s and large enough for a layout that has allowed me to develop a working discipline. I have the usual...
by Patrick | Sep 21, 2020 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
Working through the ideas around the imagery of the lavender, I realised that the way I was approaching the colour and the way I was approaching the structure of the painting I was sliding into a second version of the border ‘Geranium’ painting from some years ago....
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