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...
by Patrick | Jan 29, 2018 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
They were used in industry to tease out threads from wool for spinning. Using photographs and drawings I am teasing out ideas about expressing their structure through colour on both canvas, and if I can figure out a simple way of doing it, in 3D too. I have been...
by Patrick | Jan 24, 2018 | art, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel, wilderness
“It’s your Christmas present” she said, “a week in Lanzarote. The sun will help your healing”. Yes, a year after operations we still think of my healing. I have added over a half inch of muscle on my thighs, starting to rebuild the 4 inches I lost in hospital. My love...
by Patrick | Dec 28, 2017 | art, art as language, Design, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
Talking at one of the Christmas parties (you know, women in one room talking politics and whatever, blokes in the kitchen talking about motor bikes/cars/boats) a guy asked me what I had done for a living. Note: what I had done – we were all of a certain age. I told...
by Patrick | Dec 14, 2017 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Andy Warhol Almost an everyday activity, my walk along the cliffs. The beauty of landscape views feeds my soul as well as my mind. Everyday the light is different, the colours changing with season. Weather and...
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