Patrick Barrington obituary

My friend Patrick Barrington, who has died aged 88, was an electrical engineer whose great talent lay in painting, and whose work hangs in the national art gallery of Guyana, from where he hailed.Among Patrick’s paintings at the gallery is the one for which he was best known, a Cubist-style self-portrait reflecting his love of Picasso. His work portrayed life as he was growing up in Guyana and before he settled in Britain: cane cutters, shanty town rooftops, proud women, exhausted women, a