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 | 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 | 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...
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 | Aug 19, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels
‘Honeysuckle Sun’ I called this image first time around. Still I come back to this photography and drawing of honeysuckle, twisting and turning as I try to resolve the balance between the photographs, the drawings and the paintings. The drawings have become perhaps...
by Patrick | May 30, 2016 | art, art as language, painting, pastels
“I think therefore I am” 17th century philosopher Descartes doubted everything he said and began his treatise by saying that everything he knew was false. By denying everything, he can begin his argument free and clear of prejudice, with an open and innocent mind....
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