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....
by Patrick | Feb 21, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, oil, painting, pastels
Spring is sprung in the garden. The occasional night drops below zero and we have the occasional frost but the daffodils are out, crocuses abound and everything is popping into bud. The right time to start a new piece of work and do a bit of a spring clean to the...
by Patrick | Feb 7, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels
I first started working with images of geraniums back in the 1970’s, alongside paintings using tulips, crocosmia, honeysuckle and lupins, all of which were grown in my own garden. Moving to Seaford a few years ago introduced me to a different type of geranium, and...
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