Patrick Pollen was a British stained-glass artist who spent most of his life working in Ireland.
12 Facts About Patrick Pollen
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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.
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Arthur Pollen was a sculptor of religious works, and grandson of John Hungerford Pollen.
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Patrick Pollen attended St Philip's preparatory school in South Kensington, then Avisford, near Arundel, and finally Ampleforth College, going on to serve national service.
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Patrick Pollen attended the Slade School of Fine Art for two years to study painting, going on to work at an art school in Paris, Academie Julian.
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In 1952 Patrick Pollen's father took him to see Evie Hone's Crucifixion and Last Supper window in Eton College Chapel.
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Patrick Pollen worked for two years from 1957 on 32 windows for the new Cathedral of Christ The King, Johannesburg.
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Patrick Pollen made the windows in Dublin, then shipping them to be assembled in South Africa.
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Patrick Pollen created the mosaic of St Joseph the Worker and windows for Galway Cathedral.
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In 1963 Patrick Pollen created a memorial window to Catherine O'Brien in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
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Patrick Pollen took on Helen Moloney as an assistant from 1960 to 1962.
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Patrick Pollen married sculptor Nell Murphy in 1963, with the couple buying a house in Dublin in which Patrick Pollen had his studio.