Chichester exhibition is Patrick’s first in a decade

Patrick's exhibition is in Chichester Library from March 2-7, and he is delighted to be back: “I'm back now and I'm going to be putting all my energies into my art. I've been waiting for this moment. When my son Matisse was born I put my art on the backburner but he is now 23 and he is a grown man and I'm going back to my art.

“I'm so pleased that I'm going to be in Chichester Library. It's a very special place. It's a place I feel such affinity for. I love the architecture, the circle shape, the one continuous edge that it has. I just feel that it's got an amazing energy.

“The exhibition is going to be a combination of abstract paintings and landscapes and seascapes, and I've done a portrait of Jesus. It's quite a good one. And I also have one or two sculptures in there.

“It is my first exhibition for about ten years and it is certainly exciting to return to it. I feel like I've come home. I feel that I'm doing what I was supposed to be doing and it is great. I could not be happier to be reconnecting with the art world. It feels fantastic.”

And it is great to tap into his evolving art: “My art has never stopped changing. It has never stopped evolving over 40 to 50 years. It just keeps changing, changing, changing which is what it should do. We live in a changing world, a world that is changing all the time and art should change all the time too.

“I want people to come away from the exhibition thinking that art is valuable and important as an experience but I also want them to enjoy this environment in the library where literature and audio and books and films connect and come together. It is about the arts.”