Patrick lives and works in Brussels, Belgium, his day job dedicated to protecting the environment, his spare time to writing fiction, poetry and art reviews. He grew up in Germany, Australia, Japan and England, and studied Physics and Philosophy in the UK, French language and civilization in France and Mexican literature of the 20th century in Mexico. His short stories have appeared in Coffin Bell, Night Picnic Press, Beyond Words, The Brussels Review, and in 101 Words. His poetry collection, Urban Enigmas, will come out as a chapbook in 2025, produced by Dipity Press.
No trip to London is arguably complete without a visit to the National Portrait Gallery and its Portrait Award, relaunched the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024. This is the […]
A long-lost portrait of the English monarch Henry VIII has been rediscovered thanks to a post on X. London-based art historian Adam Busiakiewicz was the one to first […]
Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart has been honoured in Derry, Northern Ireland, with a mural thought to be the region’s tallest ever. Created on the city’s quayside […]
Portuguese street artist Vhils, renowned for his innovative creative techniques, has unveiled a street mural in Brussels, ahead of the opening of a 6-month exhibition at […]
Visiting Brussels is a bit like going on an architectural treasure hunt. The city bursts with buildings of all different kind of styles, yet some of […]
Ten years after the Maidan Revolution took place in Ukraine, the event will be remembered through a photography exhibition Kyiv, including some works by Belgian photographer […]
Nicolas de Staël is another in a long line of emigrant artists who left Russia in the last two centuries, enriching the welcoming country. Like Mark […]
In order to “tell the historical narrative of Congo and Belgium in a constructive, forward-looking manner”, Belgium’s first Congolese cultural centre opened in Brussels on Friday, […]
Amedeo Modigliani’s portraits defined an era through their style – their elongated faces, necks and bodies inspired by and borrowing from African masks (like Pablo Picasso) […]