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Artist and art teacher born in Paddington, London to Irish parents and a father who worked as a labourer. Paddy as he was popularly known studied at Camberwell School of Art, (1955-59). He was to become known for his depictions of pub and street life in Brixton, South London and in 1984 his paintings of scenes from these areas won him a prize at the Spirit of London exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall. National Service was still compulsory when he finished at Camberwell but his pacifistic objections caused him to have to work in the vivisection department at the Maudsley Hospital in south London. The animal experiments he saw upset him so much that years later he staged a solo exhibition at the Piccadilly Gallery in London's West End which showed the graphic images he witnessed. He worked as an art teacher in Streatham and also as an art instructor in Wandsworth Prison.
He also exhibited with the Young Contemporaries, and at Morley College and in 1985 he retired to the French village of Seillans located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. His daughter Anna Lovely is also an artist and gallery owner.
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