by Patrick | Oct 24, 2025 | Lifestyle, painting, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I greet each day looking to the sky, blessing the dawn’s arrival. The cat is under my feet until I fill his food bowl after which he lets me meander outside to gaze at the firmament. On this morning the crescent moon shone brightly, the sun, its light bringing more...
by Patrick | Oct 11, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, Remembrance
There has been a Ravilious room at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery for quite a long time. Reworking now in a generous and long overdue space liberated by the addition of new galleries downstairs breathes new life into appreciating his short-lived genius. Ravilious is an...
by Patrick | Jun 10, 2025 | Design, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Uncategorized
“OMG, I feel like such a fool, but it’s my very first time, so I just set it up on my own without telling anyone. And to cap it all, I’ve forgotten the password.” JK Rowling when locked out of her new website We’ve all been there. Bill Gates has made himself one...
by Patrick | Apr 30, 2025 | art, education, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
This feels like summer. The summer of 68/69? It was never about the music for me. Corsham, art college, was all about the environment, down to spending a night sleeping up a tree in the grounds of the Court after a row with Geoff Turpin, who’d given up sleeping in...
by Patrick | Apr 1, 2025 | art, art as language, Environment, Garden, painting, photography, Remembrance
Its warm in the garden this evening, the first time I’ve been enticed to sit on the bench warming myself in the sun, a geriatric with a camera. The term comes from Greek roots—”geras” meaning old age and “iatros” meaning physician. In a broader...
by Patrick | Mar 4, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Readers of my 280+ blog posts will have followed my travails through cancer, spinal injuries, arthritis etc as I have worked with camera and paintbrush to respond to the beauty of our world. I have sought beauty even as England allows decay to rule in a wanton...
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