Patrick Procktor: Roses

Patrick Procktor RA 1936-2003

Although born in Dublin (1936), Procktor was largely brought up in London and Brighton. After being taught art at school by Kyffin Williams, the noted Welsh landscape painter, Procktor attended the Slade School of Fine Art. In 1963 h3 held his first solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery with whom he would be associated for much of his career.

By 1968 Procktor was showing in New York and exhibited abroad regularly thereafter alongside extensive travels throughout India, China and Japan. Procktor was part of an influential group of British artists of the 1960s alongside David Hockney.

He was made an R.A in 1996 and his works are well represented in public collections both in Britain and abroad including Tate Gallery, London.