Antiques Roadshow 2004. Painting of Eccleston Square, London, & botanical studies of fungi. The BBC Art expert is Stephen Somerville. On Swift's painting of Eccleston Square Stephen Somerville says simply: "I Love it".

Patrick Swift & Painting, Winstone Cottage, 1956


Patrick Swift & Patrick Kavanagh, Grand Canal, Dublin, 1951; still from a film by John Ryan



Anthony Cronin and Patrick Swift, 1951; still from a film by John Ryan


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I remember him setting up an enormous canvas in the garden of Hatch Street in Dublin where his studio then was, and, without further ado, painting a portrait of a girl without any preliminary sketches or without squaring off the canvas, without any preliminary work whatever... I had at the time a 16mm movie camera, and panning the camera from the painting to the subject, to and fro, captured the scene on film. I used to show this film to the two Paddies (Swift and Kavanagh) and they could never get enough.
I made a number of these colour films including one of Kavanagh and Swift and Cronin ambling along on a summer's day by the banks of Dublin's Grand Canal.

- John Ryan, Gandon Editions, 1993

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Patrick Kavanagh's wedding; there is a painting by Swift hanging on the wall behind Kavanagh

Patrick Swift finishing a portrait of Claire McAllister on a couch, 1951



Oonagh Ryan, taken shortly before meeting Patrick Swift



Patrick Swift, 1951




Patrick Swift, 1952 Exhibition



Patrick Swift, 1956


Patrick Swift, André Coyné and Cesariny, São Mamede, 1974


Mário Cesariny and André Coyné at the São Mamede Patrick Swift Exhibition, 1974



Patrick Swift, 1978

X - Volume One 1960-61 (first 4 issues), Barrie & Rockliff, London 1961



X - Volume One 1960-61 (first 4 issues) with Swift's notebook



Dead As Doornails, portrait of Anthony Cronin by Patrick Swift, 1966


Plaque at his Hatch Street studio:



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