Born in Manchester, Patrick studied at Exeter Art College, the Hochschule Der Kunst in West Berlin and at Leeds University and the Henry Moore Centre for Sculptural Studies, Leeds, England.

Over recent years Patrick has created interdisciplinary artworks for a diversity of venue's, including art festivals, galleries and unorthodox spaces such as hospitals, churches and monasteries. His unique solo art performances have been shown before live audiences in europe and the UK; he has established independent artist-run studios in the UK; has been an artist-in-residence; a part-time lecturer and guest lecturer both in the UK and the Netherlands. Patrick's work ranges from live performance; to room sized installation; to wall drawings; to Durational Drawing Actions.

The work on this website primarily focuses upon Patrick's drawings using indelible Indian ink on paper and canvas. Although ink on paper can appear perishable, Patrick uses the best water-resistant and light-fast Indian ink and acid-free paper, thus ensuring the long life of the artwork. Patrick's drawing brings him physically close to the material he uses whilst developing a form of art which is immediate and spontaneous. He relishes ink drawings truth-telling potential and it's ability to throw light on the artist's inner workings. As Holland Cotter stated in his review The Pen, Mightier Than The Brush. 'Durer to de Kooning' at the Morgan Library. Drawings in their documentary function as ideas in progress. Ink and watercolour or pen-and-ink, figurative or architectural renderings, in each drawing you can hear the clock ticking, see faces or details changing, see the artist's hand moving. Fast enough to give the image the tension of a lived moment. Drawing is a complex and potent phenomenon, all the more penetrating for refusing to let the viewer keep their distance, demanding that the viewer come up close, meet it one on one, face to face. Intimacy is its secret weapon, fragility its strength.

Patrick's artwork is preserved and represented through drawings, documents, CD and video documentation in archives such as the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England, and the Multimedial Contemporary Art Fund, Odzaci, Yugoslavia. Currently Patrick lives and works in Amsterdam.