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Porches Pottery
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Patrick Swift & Lima de Freitas at Porches Pottery c.1968



Portrait on plate. Swift's daughter, Juliet. Swift painted numerous portraits on plates



Design for Porches Pottery



Tiles by Swift in his kitchen



Tiles by Swift in his Algarve home



Tiles by Swift, Bar Bacchus, Porches Pottery

Plates by Swift:
















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Images of Porches Pottery
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Hand-crafted ornamental plasterwork by Swift, or pargeting/ relief, Porches Pottery



Hand-crafted ornamental plasterwork by Swift, or pargeting /relief, Porches Pottery










































The Story of Porches Pottery, Sarah Walmisley


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For a history of Porches Pottery: Porches Pottery
For a biography of Patrick Swift: Patrick Swift
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Tiles and ceramics by Patrick Swift's late daughter, Katherine Swift (1956-2004), who worked at Porches Pottery and went on to found Estudio Destra in Silves
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Note: many of the reproductions displayed here are of poor quality
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By Swift
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Nano Reid - Some notes on Caravaggio - Italian Report - The Artist Speaks - X magazine - RHA Exhibition 1951 - Eça de Queiroz & Fernando Pessoa - The Portuguese Enigma - Notebooks - All
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About Swift
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Patrick Swift: An Irish Painter in Portugal - IMMA 1993 Retrospective Catalogue - Dublin 1950-2 - By His Friends - X magazine - Poems - Further Quotes About - All

By His Friends
Anthony Cronin - John Ryan - John Jordan - C.H.Sisson - Martin Green - John McGahern - David Wright - Lima de Freitas - Katherine Swift - Tim Motion - Lionel Miskin - Jacques D'Arribehaude - Brian Higgins - George Barker - Patrick Kavanagh

Further Quotes
Brian Fallon - Aidan Dunne - Derek Hill - Brendan Behan - Lucian Freud - Patrick Kavanagh - Elizabeth Smart - Further Quotes About
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