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...
by Patrick | Dec 11, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography
I was asked the other day about the transition from being an art student to establishing my own practice as an artist. The individual asking was working in a major public collection looking after the works in the museum gallery, but had trained as a fine artist. This...
by Patrick | Dec 1, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting
Slowly, slowly I am getting back to working in the studio. I am generally an optimist, some have called me a gambler, a risk taker, but that has been my life, and has enabled me to advance both in art and design, and to succeed, fail, succeed again in business. Cancer...
by Patrick | Nov 10, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, painting
Classic question, isn’t it? Everyone’s response when you say you paint, occasionally bitten off halfway through when the questioner realises the foolishness of asking. “I do flower paintings” is my standard riposte to this question. An answer as misleading as the...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2016 | art, Lifestyle, painting
It’s just on three months since I had the nephrostomy. Three months with a catheter into my kidney draining wastes into a bag strapped to my leg. Three months of this sploshing as a half full bag of piss moves against my leg as I walk. Three months of this warm damp...
by Patrick | Oct 11, 2016 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Eighteen months is a long time, in any world not just, as they say, in politics. In the Seaford art world it is bringing changes as the Crypt Gallery becomes a trust, the gallery being leased by the council to a charitable trust formed by the Friends. Eighteen months...
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