AWARD WINNING ART DOCUMENTARY | Pat Porter: A Hidden Light | GOLDMARK

Our Pro Moviemaker Magazine, Filmmaker of the Year Award winning documentary celebrates the life and work of Pat Porter (1944-2022), a prolific painter whose intimate still lifes, landscapes, and portraits were created over decades but never publicly shown during her lifetime. Set against the moving backdrop of her Rutland house and studio, the story unfolds through the voices of her four children, allowing the viewer to explore this long-hidden body of work — delicate, deeply personal pieces that capture the quiet intensity of a woman devoted to observing the world around her. Though she exhibited only a handful of times during her lifetime, Pat Porter’s still lives and interior scenes reveal a prodigious talent that is only now receiving the recognition it deserves. Porter (née Reynolds) studied at the Slade School of Art in London in the mid-1960s, where her tutors included Euan Uglow and William Coldstream; Derek Jarman was a fellow student, as was her future husband, the painter Tony Porter. Upon graduation, the Porters left London for rural Northamptonshire, where Pat continued to paint, balancing her art while raising a young family. Porter’s work, which underwent a number of significant and often radical evolutions, drew on her intense observation of the domestic world immediately surrounding her, always working from life rather than memory, photographs, or the imagination. Her still life oils – at times so heavily impastoed to reach a point of near-abstraction, at others Cézannesque, or picked out with Matisse-like flattened colours and outlines – demonstrate an enduring dialogue with artists of the past as well as the objects she surrounded herself with. https://www.goldmarkart.com/collectio... Goldmark Films is the Pro Moviemaker Filmmaker of the Year and four-times Royal Television Society Award nominated independent film making arm of the world-renowned Goldmark Gallery. It has been producing broadcast arts documentaries for over 20 years and has made 24 feature length documentaries and 100 plus shorts. Goldmark's global reputation allows it to gain intimate and revealing interviews with some of the world's leading artists, ceramicists, writers and critics. Its films on contemporary artists are complemented by a stable of programmes unveiling the fascinating life stories of both the famous and the forgotten painters, potters and sculptors of the 20th century. https://www.goldmarkart.com Goldmark is an art and ceramics gallery, Royal Television Society-nominated film maker, book publisher, printmaker and scholarship hub. A shop like no other! A selling gallery of national and international significance, it has stood at the heart of Uppingham, for over half a century. The gallery's investment in and support of artists and potters means it now owns over 50,000 works of art, represents the estates of several major 20th-century artists and has exclusive representation of major potters from Japan and Korea to Denmark, the UK and the USA. Its bespoke exhibitions tour public and commercial UK galleries every year. https://www.goldmarkart.com/ WEBSITE https://www.goldmarkart.com/