by Patrick | Nov 19, 2019 | art, Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel
It’s a wonderful town, we all know that. My first visit, as a young artist and college lecturer, was on Laker’s Skytrain from Manchester, £99 return for the US independence bicentennial celebrations in 1976. I took hundreds of images of skyscrapers and made my money...
by Patrick | Aug 2, 2019 | education, Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Travel, Uncategorized
Just 16 houses and a flint church. I pulled up on the area of grass in front of the churchyard. As I opened the car door the scent of crushed grass filled my nostrils. A wood pigeon cooed and stared down at me from the round spire of the church. A crow gave a single...
by Patrick | Apr 10, 2019 | Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance
A year on from first attending a ringing practice. Time passes, and milestones drift by. I was one of the 3,000+ people recruited to take part in the global Remembrance ring for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War in which over 1,400 ringers...
by Patrick | Jan 18, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
A couple of years ago a magazine in New York used some of my images of the city taken in bicentennial year, 1976, photographed on Kodak slide film on my first visit to the USA. Amongst them was an image of the then revolutionary TWA Flight Centre. Also known as the...
by Patrick | Dec 16, 2018 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance
No “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir” and the only stately galleons were the rain squalls sailing majestically up the Channel as I walk the shingle shore. Closer to the water the smaller stones glistened like “diamonds, emeralds, amethysts, topazes, and...
by Patrick | Dec 5, 2018 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I have written 3 pieces previously about my efforts to learn to be a bell ringer. My goal was to ring in the international remembrance ring on the 11th November, which I did, an emotional moment, but I have continued to learn, progressing to rounds and beginning to...
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