by Patrick | Jul 28, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
I’ve tried walking sideways, And walking to the front, But people just look at me, And say it’s a publicity stunt. (Spike Milligan 1956) Sometimes fascinations recur. In the 1970’s I started to deconstruct the square I use in the paintings, looking at the...
by Patrick | Jul 6, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel, Uncategorized
It started with a ‘bucket list’. After twenty years travelling Europe, the US and Africa there are a few places I still want to visit – and no, I don’t need anymore suggestions, thanks… In the past I have visited over 30 countries, but there are places I still want to...
by Patrick | Jun 20, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Op Art, painting
In my blog at the end of January I wrote “I hope to explore more loosely the colour ideas” that I was exploring in drawings based on the BRotS series. Slowly this has come together, interrupted by a long sojourn in South Africa and the time spent focussed on health...
by Patrick | May 20, 2018 | art, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
A week ago composer John Kerr wrote: “Just got home from doing my very last concert together with Ron Boots and Harold van der Heijden… so here’s another short excerpt from my album “prelude to a requiem”. release: 16th September on my 70th...
by Patrick | May 9, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
As an art student in the 1960’s I worked every vacation. It started when I was a Foundation student (pre-dip in those days) in Stafford Art College. My parents were living in married quarters at the RAF apprentice school in Cosford (now a rather spectacular part of...
by Patrick | Feb 23, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, photography
“Painting is washed up. Who will ever do anything better than that propeller? Tell me, can you do that?”. Marcel Duchamp 1912 It started with Duchamp’s signature on a urinal. Making a point? Or just a comment on the art around him? Was it really saying...
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