I have had to dig into my archive to find a shot that a musician saw on my website and wishes to use on his album cover. I got out my transparencies box and started rooting through the work of 10 - 25 years ago to find the 5x4 I was looking for. This was one of a series of shots done for a...
I have just dug out my negatives of Daphne who was born in 1995. She results from a collaboration between myself and sculptor Giorgio Bevignani with whom I'd already collaborated on other photographs in the Metamorphoses series the year before. The laurel bush was constructed by Giorgio...
I am going to permit myself a bit of a rant. Be warned, as I know I'm going to appear to be a snob, so whether you agree or not please leave a comment. The Italians say that you need a signore to make good wine - in other words a peasant isn't capable. Well I'd go a bit further....
Garden Architecture and Photo Decor Technology moves on and the Metamorphoses are now printed by Vandijkenglas on glass to become a new form of garden architecture. The brainchild of garden architect Lars Verziljlenberg. Patrick steps out into this new field with Daphne; Ovid would surely...
Hamadryads are nymphs associated with trees, each one having its own Hamadryad. They are not immortal, they share their destiny with the tree: when the tree dies, so does the nymph. I have a particular love for the Maritime Pine with its unmistakable umbrella canopy. They are native...
There is nothing like photography for decorating a home. Gone are the days when photography was chained to the 10x8" print, tastefully matted and mounted in a plain black frame. Now things are much BIGGER! Daphne 200x100cm Cheaper than a painting and bigger than a lithograph, a...
I was on my annual visit to the Bologna Art Fair recently and I thought if I see another art work titled "Untitled" then I am going to go on a visual strike and just not pay any more attention to the art work. This diatribe of mine was triggered by seeing a photograph on a blog that...
Despite the fact that photography is seen more and more in art galleries, my work tends to be shown most in furniture show rooms and Design Stores. Peonia in a modern home I like to print big and a framed photograph covers a lot of wall space. Someone visiting a design store...
What is it that makes a painting more or less erotic? The subject? The pose? The beauty of the sitter? Surely all three but there are other important elements as well. The “Tepidarium” by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, painted in 1881, is made up of a number of elements that would not of...
One of the greatest paintings of the Renaissance, Sleeping Venus is an unusual, not to say mysterious work, even for an out of the ordinary painter like Giorgione. The work was unfinished on his death at 34 of plague to be completed by Titian who then went on to paint similar Venuses of his own....
This is the second photograph I have done based on Ingres’ Grande Odalisque (the other is Casalisca). Ingres is one of those artists who can give a certain comfort to artists who have passed middle age as several of his most famous works were painted towards the end of long life. The Turkish Bath...
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