Campanula, 1989

Patrick Procktor was a painter and printmaker born in Dublin in 1936, raised in London. He held his first one-man show at The Redfern Gallery in London’s Cork Street in 1963—a sellout solo exhibition that helped confirm his reputation among a wider artistic circle. Procktor was a keen and highly competent watercolourist and travel-painter. His work was varied in subject—including landscapes, townscapes, figure compositions, portraits, and interiors—and was frequently based on his extensive travels. He died on August 29, 2003, in London. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.