by Patrick | Jan 18, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance
The news that London is the most popular tourist destination on the globe will come as no surprise to Londoners. It comes as a mixed blessing for those who have to endure never ending crowds of rubber-neckers, people carrying rucksacks larger than themselves on the...
by Patrick | Jan 4, 2014 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance
I wasted two days this week searching for missing photographs of Verdun. In my new studio I was finishing a triptych of drawings based in the colours from the images taken on a visit to this killing ground of WW1. In Verdun birds still don’t sing. Over half a...
by Patrick | Nov 16, 2013 | Lifestyle, Remembrance
It was such a beautiful sunrise, and unusually for mid-November it was followed by a gloriously sunny day, almost Mediterranean. Now the leaves are gone from the trees I can see the headland easily from the house so after my morning porridge I took my camera for a...
by Patrick | Nov 4, 2013 | Lifestyle, Remembrance
The wearing of a poppy has stood as a symbol of remembrance in Britain and the Commonwealth since its introduction by the British Legion in 1921. It owes its place in symbology of war to poet and Canadian medic John McCrea, himself buried in the Commonwealth War...
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