Themes in Life
There were many threads in Pat’s life but we would like to mention just three here.
Art was an important part of
Pat’s life. She went on the
residential summer courses at the Hibernia School of Art in Stroud,
learning from Karen Jarwen and Celia Whyatt, and she also studied at
Pat also pursued her love of Eurythmy which she had studied intermittently during her life. She performed in public for the first time when she was 80. She regularly did Eurythmy exercises first thing in the morning and it must have been partly this that kept her so youthful, both in body and mind.
Above all meeting people or bringing people together in a meaningful, non-superficial way was the most important theme of her life. From the ups and downs of her own life she had the resources to be a good listener and come up with new ways of looking at life problems.