by Patrick | Apr 3, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, painting, pastels, photography
We live in a world of ‘alt: news’ apparently, this being a world where people cannot tell fact from fiction. Supposedly an ‘alternate reality’ in which how they see the world is not the same as how you might see the world. I accept that all facts are capable of...
by Patrick | Mar 26, 2017 | art, art as language, painting
Many artists profess that the scariest thing they face is a large empty white canvas. I love it. A new playground of ideas. I start with the image I want to work with, in this next painting another daisy image but also involving a pot of crocus. If I had to guess I’d...
by Patrick | Mar 19, 2017 | art, Lifestyle, painting
There is an image of Superman, used on the front page of comics for ages, fist raised, taking off in a leap into the atmosphere. One bound, and he’s free! That is exactly how I feel. Given the all clear from cancer, also cleared of diabetes completely (not even...
by Patrick | Feb 9, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Op Art, painting, photography
We live in what all the pundits refer to as a ‘rule based world’. Whether talking about Putin and Russia’s assertiveness through asymmetrical warfare as in Ukraine, or anarchic demonstrations of the kind seen in major western cities, our rule based world is under...
by Patrick | Jan 21, 2017 | art, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I was shocked to discover that the cancer and the consequential hospital stays had wrought such havoc on my body. My partner and I measure each other (shut up, it’s fun) each year, and I have lost muscle mass along with weight. Thigh muscles to have withered, so I...
by Patrick | Jan 4, 2017 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Once upon a time, long, long ago, a father taught his son to draw. The youth showed a precocious talent. An uncle portrayed as a ‘great ape’ because he called the boy ‘monkey face’, was teased by his brothers about the drawing, and never forgave the lad. Art college...
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