Patrick Pollen

Patrick Pollen
Born	Patrick Laprimaudaye Pollen 12 January 1928 London, United Kingdom
Died	30 November 2010(2010-11-30) (aged 82) County Wexford, Ireland
Nationality	British
Known for	stained glass design

Patrick Pollen (12 January 1928 – 30 November 2010) was a British stained-glass artist who spent most of his life working in Ireland.

Early life and education

Patrick La Primaudaye Pollen was born in London on 12 January 1928, the second son and second of six children of Arthur and Daphne Pollen (née Baring).^[1] Arthur Pollen was a sculptor of religious works, and grandson of John Hungerford Pollen. Daphne was the daughter of Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke, who purchased Lambay Island and employed Edwin Lutyens to restore the castle there. Daphne was a painter of religious matter.^[2] Pollen attended St Philip's preparatory school in South Kensington, then Avisford, near Arundel,^[1] and finally Ampleforth College, going on to serve national service. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art for two years to study painting, going on to work at an art school in Paris, Académie Julian.^[2]

Stained glass work

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Chapel of Laurence O'Toole Window Virgin and Child with Saint Luke

In 1952 Pollen's father took him to see Evie Hone's Crucifixion and Last Supper window in Eton College Chapel. Upon seeing it he announced "That's what I want to do."^[2] He moved to Dublin to study with the stained glass cooperative Evie Hone was a member of, An Túr Gloine, which was run by Catherine O'Brien and she and hone became his mentors.^[1] When Hone died in 1955, she left him her brushes.^[3]

His early work from the 1950s is mostly in Britain, including a window in a private chapel in the London Oratory, three windows for a chapel at Whitchurch, and a crypt window for Rosslyn Chapel. Pollen worked for two years from 1957 on 32 windows for the new Cathedral of Christ The King, Johannesburg. He made the windows in Dublin, then shipping them to be assembled in South Africa. Pollen created the mosaic of St Joseph the Worker and windows for Galway Cathedral.^[2] In 1963 Pollen created a memorial window to Catherine O'Brien in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.^[4]

Following Vatican II newly designed churches featured less stained glass, and Pollen found he was receiving less commissions. As a consequence Pollen and his family moved to the United States in 1981. They settled in Winston-Salem, North Carolina but there was very little work there and in 1997 they returned in Ireland, living in his wife native County Wexford.^[2]

Family

Pollen married sculptor Nell Murphy in 1963, with the couple buying a house in Dublin in which Pollen had his studio. Murphy worked in plaster, clay and stone, her works often features in churches with that of Pollen. They had four sons, Peter, Ciaran, Laurence and Christopher, and a daughter, Brid.^[3] Pollen died on 30 November 2010 in County Wexford.^[2]

Other works

Six windows in Ballinteer Roman Catholic Church, Dublin.
Windows for the new church at Lifford, County Donegal (1962).^[2]
Three windows for a church at Milford, County Donegal (1960).
Memorial window in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, to soldiers of Irish regiments killed in the First and Second World Wars (early 1980s).
Four-panel Epiphany for Foster's Almshouses, Bristol (1968).^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 Jebb, Louis (30 December 2010). "Patrick Pollen: Artist celebrated for his work in stained glass". The Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Patrick Pollen". The Telegraph. 27 December 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
1 2 "Artist's stained glass windows graced churches in Ireland and beyond". The Irish Times. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
↑ "Catherine Amelia O'Brien". Clare County Library. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

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British and Irish stained glass

British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918)

History

Influences

Artistic movements	Aesthetic Movement Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Movement Biblia pauperum Cambridge Camden Society Classicism Early Renaissance Exoticism Gothic Revival Oxford Movement Romanticism

Organisations	The Glass House Hogarth Club Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

People

Architectural	John Loughborough Pearson Augustus Pugin George Gilbert Scott Alexander Thomson

Artists	Edward Liddall Armitage Hugh Arnold Alfred E. Child Margaret Chilton Harry Clarke Walter Francis Clokey Charles Edmund Clutterbuck Trena Cox Louis Davis works Rachel de Montmorency Alfred Drury Mabel Esplin Moira Forsyth Wilhelmina Geddes Jane Gray Reginald Hallward works Herbert Hendrie James Humphries Hogan Evie Hone Joan Howson works Marjorie Kemp Charles Eamer Kempe Mary Lowndes William Morris Catherine Amelia O’Brien Karl Parsons works Henry Payne works Lilian Josephine Pocock Patrick Pollen Sarah Purser Ethel Rhind Arnold Wathen Robinson works Arild Rosenkrantz Francis Skeat works Caroline Townshend works Christopher Webb Christopher Whall works Veronica Whall works Thomas Willement William Wilson Paul Woodroffe works Edward Woore works British stained-glass artists Irish stained-glass artists

Critics	John Ruskin

Manufacturers	An Túr Gloine Burlison and Grylls Harry Clarke Clayton and Bell Walter Francis Clokey Daniel Cottier John Hardman & Co. Heaton, Butler and Bayne Hincks and Burnell Lavers, Barraud and Westlake Morris & Co. James Powell and Sons Shrigley and Hunt William Wailes William Warrington

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