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John Pattenden - Artist

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It is in our nature to look and see.   We thrive in this luxury - this never-ending feast.   The more we look the more we see, the more we want to look, and the more there is to see, and the more fine points there are to discover in everything it is possible for us to see.   A daisy is a simple flower until you begin to really look at it.   A good photograph of a daisy will impel you to start looking at a real daisy more pointedly, and from that looking at all things more pointedly...   A quote from the author William Saroyan used in the book ''How to look at...more
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Artistic Influence

December 15th, 2011

I find it interesting that art that we have experienced during our lives remains with us and influences our own work. I'm not talking about plagiarism here. Just that fact that we can be working on something and suddenly see an influence that was n... 

Mystic Winter

December 13th, 2011

I was walking along the Mystic River CT on Christmas Eve a couple of years ago as the sun was setting. As is so often the case, the light at this time of the day was amazing. The setting sun had the effect of giving the line of leafless trees a gol...