by Patrick | May 20, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Steps
The grid paintings dominated my artistic output for many years, symbolic of the systems and structures our governments put in place to control us, the colour breaking free of the grid’s constraints. Almost the last of these was the Brexit Daisy (now in a private...
by Patrick | Mar 16, 2025 | art as language, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Winter retreats. At the first opportunity I take my coffee into the garden to sit in the sun, watching the frost melt off the grass (almost as exciting as things get around here). I sit there not just soaking up sunshine but looking at the rich greens of the grass,...
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 | Aug 5, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography, Uncategorized
It’s been a tough year. Is that what happens as one ages – each year gets tougher? Physically I have always tried to exercise, even buying a share in a central London gym once at the height of the gym investment craze. Great place to exercise. Went bust of course. I...
by Patrick | Sep 1, 2021 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography
During ArtWave 21 I have been asked to participate in the ‘Celebrate Cuckmere’ exhibition at the South Hill Barn, a newish venue in the South Downs National Park on the edge of Seaford, because of the work and essays I have written about the sea defences...
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