Featured Artist

Patrick's Gallery

Rupert and Friends

The Welcome

Teddy Bear's Last Supper

Rupert's Model

Rupert's Musician

NZ Feathers

My People's Future

Our People's Future

Hinemoa and Tutanekai

Hinemoa's Bag

Dancing Time

Guide Maggie's Cloak

The 1860 Anzac's

Martinborough

Gallia table and chair

Patrick Guildford

Welcome to Patrick Ford Art.

My name is Patrick Guildford but after discussing my art with my luncheon buddies, they thought Patrick Ford was an enhanced artistic name and so it has been.

In 2019, I was looking through my old school reports. I was startled by my Standard 3 …… teacher’s comments, “Patrick is a gifted artist”. My dad who was headmaster at the time added “yes and this is confirmed by him winning first prize in the South Wairarapa Show for his nature study book.”

So that’s my formal art education but that reading got me painting.

I love the history of Australia, NZ and elsewhere. I love the detail that can be encompassed in some of the visions and thoughts we have when looking back. I love the finer detail of the pictures of life, the beauty of nature and of people, what we do and how we present ourselves and the stories we tell. I love positive and outgoing situations.

So, I paint this quirky stuff. Probably contemporary. I am amazed at what the brush can achieve. The walls in our home have been enlightened and changed forever!