Padraig Mac Miadhachain obituary

My friend the artist Padraig Mac Miadhachain, who has died aged 88, lived most of his life at Swanage on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, and also had a long association with St Ives, Cornwall, where he was a member of the Penwith Society of Arts and maintained a studio for many years.Paddy travelled widely, throughout the US, South America, Europe, north Africa, the middle east and central Asia. These experiences contributed to a vast mental archive of visual images from which he drew the inspirati