Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a

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, painter and stained glass artist, resident in

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. Pye was born in Winchester, England. He died in

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, Ireland.

Career

Major commissions can be seen across

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. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the

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. He is a founding member of

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. He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time". The poet

Michael Longley Michael Longley, (born 27 July 1939, Belfast, Northern Ireland), is an Anglo-Irish poet. Life and career One of twin boys, Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to English parents, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast A ...

described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass".

References

External links

Patrick Pye's website

Biographical note
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* McAvera B. "Patrick Pye, Life and Work" Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2013. * Fitzsimons R.B. "Arthur O'Leary and Arthur Sullivan, Musical Journeys from Kerry to the heart of Victorian England". Doghouse, Tralee, 2008 1929 births 2018 deaths Aosdána members British male painters British male sculptors British stained glass artists and manufacturers Artists from Dublin (city) 20th-century British painters 20th-century British sculptors 21st-century British painters 20th-century British male artists 21st-century British male artists {{UK-painter-20thC-stub