by Patrick | Dec 31, 2023 | art, Design, education, Lifestyle, painting, Uncategorized
Nancy and Jim visited today. Nancy was one of the senior assistants in Olga Polizzi’s office at Forte and was the person who approved my design practice as one of the group of practices working on Forte hotels in the 1980’s. She and Jim wanted to know how Goff...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It’s where the past is hit by the future. The past is sedimentary and igneous rocks that formed the earth; the future is the waves that smash onto them loaded with shingle driven by sun, the moon, winds and tides, the sea reputedly where life started. Man...
by Patrick | Sep 17, 2023 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting
There are now some 230+ articles on my artistic process and the life experiences that have moulded it, including of course a series of pieces on art education in which I was involved as a student and then a lecturer/course leaders/HOD for a number of years as well as...
by Patrick | Sep 4, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Merlyn spelt with y not with an i. Yet what magic do you weave as English Merlins do. Time too weaves its magic, and meeting after over 50 years was a strange dislocation of the time/space continuum. Whilst I have come across you in the professional world as a name it...
by Patrick | Aug 14, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels, photography
Life is complicated. Living is a process. Plan it all you want but interruptions to the process are inevitable whether from internal failure or external forces, physical, emotional, financial. Life is like that. When an artist starts on a journey of discovery through...
by Patrick | Aug 2, 2023 | art, art as language, Design, education, Lifestyle, oil, painting, photography
In a previous piece I wrote about Trechikoff’s ‘Green lady’ the unlikely winner of the ‘Most Reproduced Picture of the 21st Century’. Considered by most critics as a piece of kitsch it doesn’t usually feature in lectures on 20th century art, or in learned critical...
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