by Patrick | Nov 25, 2025 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
A chat with Amanda Lewis-Clements Patrick: Come on. I’ve been asking you for your working process for bloody ages and nothing has come. Do you blame your other half? Or is that just you cop out! Amanda: No, it’s not… (laughter) well because he said he...
by Patrick | Jul 2, 2025 | art, Design, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
Many wail about declining numbers of working people, using it to justify the invasion of ill-educated, frequently low IQ, predominantly male migrant workers to provide the labour they think we need, flying in the face of the evidence that automation and new working...
by Patrick | Feb 25, 2025 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
The major port in my bit of Sussex used to be Pevensey. Here the Roman fort was almost on an Island – a clay promontory surrounded by sea that has silted to produce a protected fragile marshland wildlife area surrounding the remains of the Roman and Norman castles. In...
by Patrick | Dec 31, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Travel
In my work documenting decay on the English South Coast I walk with a camera and record what I see with a view to taking it into the studio to process into paintings. This is a developmental path well known since the 19th century, flowering in the 20th in the work of...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2024 | art, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
One of these mornings you’re gonna rise up singing. Yes, you’ll spread your wings, and you’ll take to the sky. But ’til that morning, there’s nothing can harm you....
by Patrick | Jun 4, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, painting, photography, Travel, wilderness
Now the Turner prize has gone, and we have our gallery back. Still not free of the corrosive Arts Council social work arts programme, but ignore the excrescence on the ground floor, despite its claim using the Bayeux Tapestry to justify the size of its awfulness. No,...
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