My father, Patrick Lovely, who has died aged 85, was an artist and art teacher whose paintings and drawings, especially in later life, documented the everyday activities of ordinary people, especially in Brixton, south London, where he lived for many years.
His Brixton work focused particularly on the experience of Irish and Windrush communities there, often depicting scenes inside local drinking holes. He won prizes for those paintings, including at the Spirit of London exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall in 1984, allowing him to declare that “my time in pubs was never wasted”.
