Welcome to the Art of Patrick Goff

My work is about colour and texture. It reflects my environment and my relationship with both it and human society.  Sometimes I am enticed to sit on a garden bench warming myself in the sun, a geriatric with a camera. The term comes from Greek roots—”geras” meaning old age and “iatros” meaning physician. In a broader sense, it can also just describe something characteristic of older individuals. I tell myself this 79-year-old man tries to heal souls with a search to share beauty – a search conducted to my own reward throughout life. This geriatric sold his first photograph at 16, won his first art prize at 18, had his first one-man show in Brighton in 1973  Sixty years on from the first prizes I now have the ultimate prize of old age – life and time to enjoy the beauty of Gods creations, to praise him by sharing the beauty I see, for an artist is just a conduit for beauty to pass through. So I prepare my own soul for the afterlife. I sit and watch the bumbles and see the delicate skeins of web spun from branch to bush as natures hunters seek to harvest the delicate hoverflies and midges that are already, in late March, filling the scented air, all celebrated in the studio

In April I enjoy the anniversary of that first sale with a show of new work based in the beauty of my garden and our Seaford foreshore. It is an ordinary Sussex garden, but it is my sanctuary where I recovered from cancer twice, where sitting and watching healed. The one-man show will run fro 9th April until the 19th at Gallery UNO In Seaford