by Patrick | Mar 20, 2026 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
It started, as so many ideas do these days, with seeing something again in the garden. The fuchsia had grown tall against the flint wall. It was not just the progression of the scale of the floret, from tiny bud to full flower but also the progressions of colour and...
by Patrick | Feb 16, 2026 | art, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I use the camera a great deal. It replaces a sketchbook most of time, as it does for many artists, whilst I notice many photographers frequently use a small sketch book before taking their photographs. One tribe trained purely to see, maybe not as technically ‘deep’,...
by Patrick | Nov 25, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
A chat with Amanda Lewis-Clements Patrick: Come on. I’ve been asking you for your working process for bloody ages and nothing has come. Do you blame your other half? Or is that just you cop out! Amanda: No, it’s not… (laughter) well because he said he...
by Patrick | Nov 3, 2025 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
How pleasant it is to wander a show labelled with Turner’s name and be one of only a dozen worshippers scattered across a number of beautifully lit, well presented (love the wall colour) galleries. From time to time the Towner shakes off the dross and presents us with...
by Patrick | Oct 24, 2025 | Lifestyle, painting, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I greet each day looking to the sky, blessing the dawn’s arrival. The cat is under my feet until I fill his food bowl after which he lets me meander outside to gaze at the firmament. On this morning the crescent moon shone brightly, the sun, its light bringing more...
by Patrick | Oct 11, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, Remembrance
There has been a Ravilious room at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery for quite a long time. Reworking now in a generous and long overdue space liberated by the addition of new galleries downstairs breathes new life into appreciating his short-lived genius. Ravilious is an...
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