by Patrick | Jun 25, 2026 | art, art as language, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Uncategorized, wilderness
“When I painted it in 1948 Christina’s World hung all summer in my house in Maine and nobody reacted to it. I thought ‘boy is this one ever a flat tyre’ Quoted by Wanda M. Corn in her 1973 book ‘The Art of Andrew Wyeth’ There are images that hold more importance for...
by Patrick | May 5, 2026 | art, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized, wilderness
The exhibition is over. A critical success perhaps but low sales failed to recover the costs. After recovering the unsold works and putting them into store I am sitting and taking stock, which means letting things meander around my unconscious mind whilst my...
by Patrick | Jan 29, 2026 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel, Uncategorized, wilderness
World War 2 hadn’t been over for two years yet. The British were still under a regime of rationing of food, clothing and fuel. The allocated rations were lower than they had been during World War 2 as supplies were diverted from Britain to feed starving peoples...
by Patrick | Nov 21, 2025 | art, art as language, Lifestyle, photography, Uncategorized
Getting old is combatted in part by staying active and engaged both physically and mentally. Now women can run faster than me, the physical is represented by ambling with a camera wherever the fancy takes me. I have a target gleaned from a Chinese exercise site where...
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 | Jul 24, 2025 | art, art as language, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Uncategorized
Time passes. We measure our life in yesterdays, watches on our wrists measuring in seconds/minutes/strides/heartbeats. Calendars a tick of days and months, birthdays the rotations around the sun. We measure our ageing and contrast it with growth, calling seasons...
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