Artist Patrick Scott dies aged 93 as exhibition opens

Cork-born Patrick Scott, who died yesterday aged 93, enjoyed a long and illustrious career as one of Ireland’s best-loved visual artists.

Scott’s death comes just as the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and VISUAL in Carlow open a retrospective of his work.

The youngest of four children, Scott was born on a farm in Kilbrittain, West Cork, in 1921. He boarded at St Columba’s in Dublin, where he first took an interest in art.