Our dear, talented friend, Pat Hosking…
Hello. Grace here.
I hope this finds you well, safe, and enjoying your Saturday morning.
While Mum and Dave join dear Pat’s family and friends today, in her home of Helston in Cornwall, to celebrate her formidable life, how about we too pause for a moment, to remember our dear Pat, and enjoy her beautiful artwork.
Her funeral will be taking place at noon today. Mum has suggested that we all light a candle at 12pm and pause for thought for our dear friend, Pat Hosking. I have gathered a bunch of her incredible artwork to share with our Clarity, Pergamano, and Groovi family. She really was such a talented woman. I’ll let her artwork speak for itself…
What a treasure. Please leave a comment of love and appreciation for Pat, her talent, her commitment to craft, and her lovely family, who no doubt are feeling this loss so very deeply.
To know Pat is to love her. And to be impressed by her.
WE LOVE YOU, PAT! Rest in peace.
Lotsa love, Grace, Barbara, and everyone at Clarity xo
Clarity – The Home of Art, Craft, and Well-Being.
I never had the privilege of actually meeting Pat, but she was a remarkable lady who produced some fantastic artwork as we have just seen above. I’m sure her family and friends will miss her terribly but I’m sure they will draw comfort from knowing just how much respect and love people had for their mum. Rest in Peace Pat, you will be missed xx
I never had the pleasure of meeting Pat……but what a truly inspirational and talented lady. It is such a pleasure to look through Pat’s artwork the attention to detail is incredible. ❤️ I am lucky enough to have one of Pat’s books, which I will treasure always. You will all be in my thoughts today. Sending much love to you all. OXOX
A remarkable and talented lady.Rest in peace,Pat.
And she said she wasn’t a stamper! Well she certainly mastered it along with all her other amazing talents. Thank you Grace for collecting her art so we can properly remember such a wonderful person. R.I.P. Pat xx
It was such a pleasure to meet Pat Hosking at last year’s Clarity Open Day. Such a lovely and very talented lady. She will be dearly missed by so many of us … especially in our chats in the SHAC sessions. I hope and pray all her family and friends are given the strength and patience to deal with her loss 🤲🏼🙏🏼 I will be wearing her favourite colours
teal and sage and lighting a candle today at 12pm along with her family and friends as we celebrate her life and all the love she had for all who knew her💙💚🕯Take care and stay safe everyone xXx 🙋🏼♀️🐈🦋💕
What a very talented lady! RIP Pat
What a fantastic collection of artwork from a wonderful lady, who was always there in the SHAC & like many of us learnt new skills through lockdown & beyond. She often posted work saying I am not a stamper but I have had a go !! She was prepared to give new things ago right up until the end so if nothing else we should try to live the same way & never say I can’t but instead say I have tried. Will be thinking of all her family & friends gathered in Cornwall today but also all the friends she has around the world. RIP Pat.
Thank you Grace for gathering all Pat’s artwork into one place for everyone to see xx
Thank you Grace for putting all this wonderful artwork together created by the extraordinarily talented Pat.
My thoughts and best wishes are with Pat’s family and the friends attending the service of celebration and thanksgiving at this time.
Thank you Grace for this fabulous collection of artwork from a wonderful talented lady. I never had the pleasure of meeting Pat, but what a beautiful legacy she has left. Will be lighting a candle at noon after Pauls show. Sincere condolences and gentle hugs to all of Pats family and friends. Rest In peace Pat. xx
Like most, I’ve never met Pat but I have some of her early designs in the pergamano parchment magazine which I collected when I first started parching. Thank you for sharing the above inspiration. I’m sure her family will gain comfort in knowing how her beautiful talent touched others in a positive way.
I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting this very talented lady. Her art work is beautiful. Sending condolences to her family and friends xx
What a talented lady, beautiful cards and artistic designs. Rest in peace. Thinking of your family on this very sad day.x
What a lovely crafty tribute to a wonderful lady who will be sadly missed. Thank you for putting this together for us to be able to take a quiet moment to remember her. My thoughts are with her family at this sad time xxx
Such a talented lady, such lovely art work. Will be sadly missed by all. Thoughts are with her family at this sad time.x
Thanks, Grace. Fantastic collection. Very inspirational, as Pat was.
I met her at Brunel Station, Temple Mead, Bristol about 13 years ago, and bought some of her traditional parchment patterns.
She gave me her address and told me to ask her for help anytime.
I will treasure the memories.
RIP Pat x
When I started traditional parchment craft 24 years ago I bought Pat’s book and still have it. Never met her but she was an inspiration and a versatile crafter.
Our thoughts are with her family and friends today.
A beautiful tribute to Pats art work thank you Grace for putting this together.
I consider myself extremely lucky to have met Pat she was gracious to not only stop and talk but she also gave me encouragement to.
My thoughts are with Pats family right now, rest in peace beautiful lady.
This brought tears to my eyes, to see such beautiful work and memories of the shac to think she was doing this with us (and better than me that’s for sure!). There’s one piece there that I thought was embroidery at first and had to do a close up to check it was parchment alone. You can see why she wanted colours worn today. What an inspiration. RIP Pat and deepest sympathy to her family and friends. X x x
Such a wonderful lady – so talented, kind and gentle, a blessing to all who knew her – inspiration and encouragement always.
Sending best wishes and prayers to your family.
Katharine Peace xxxxx
Thank you for your art Pat. I never met you but feel I know you through The Shac. Rest peacefully lovely lady xx
How lovely to see all Pat’s wonderful talent showcased today. I met her last year at the Clarity open day. I was feeling proud of myself for travelling “all the way” from The Midlands….then discovered that Pat had travelled from Cornwall! I really hope that her send off today was all that her family had hoped it would be, and that they will draw comfort from the loving vibes sent from her Clarity pals. Rest in Peace Pat x
A wonderful collection of artwork from an amazing lady. I’ve bought two of her books to remember Pat by. Thank you Grace xx
Well sometimes their are no words to put across how we feal and by putting a collection of Her Art Work together gives us all a glimpse of Her talent, and boy oh boy was their a talent there. Hat`s of to you Grace for compiling ( a fraction ) I am sure of Pat`s work, it goes through the whole range of crafting and on some of Pat`s Parchment work I thought some of it was embroidered, a truly gifted women. So I will finish now by saying it is now time for Pat to begin another journey. God speed.
I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting Pat personally, but I saw her at my first Clarity Open Day last year talking to many people. The wonderful gallery Grace has kindly collated here is a testament to her amazing talent. Pat shares her first name with my own dear mother, whom I lost 12 years ago and miss every single day that passes.
To Pat’s family and friends I send my sincere condolences, and keep in mind that the dark days of raw early grief will pass and the light of good memories and laughter will shine through in time as you learn to live with her loss. Pat has left her mark on the world and leaves us all with a wonderful legacy of her art.
May Pat Rest In Peace and may God bless Pat, her Family and Friends at this sad time. xx
May you rest in heavenly peace dear Pat, I met you at the Clarity open days. Full of love and hope, and admiration for her fellow crafters, whom she’d inspired along the way.
The most talented lady and a great teacher. Able to master whatever she put her hand too.
Her family her pride and joy who often took the long journey from Cornwall to Ditton too join in the Clarity fun.
She was beautiful and kind and generous with her time and talent. She always commented on our posts and she will be so missed.
A formidable lady full of strength and love.
You will be missed our dear friend Pat Hoskins.
Our love and thanks go out to her family who allowed and enabled her visits to the Clairty events to share in the Joy of being in the presence of OUR dear Pat.
R.I.P our dear lady Pat.
Thank you Grace for this amazing collection of Pats wonderful art.
I hope her life celebration was as colourful as Pat. May her family find comfort in her inspiration.
What a great collection of Pat’s art and lovely for her family to have to treasure forever too. Rest in Peace Pat. Xx
What an amazing collection of wonderful artwork, what a talented lady Pat was.
Thank you Grace for compiling this beautiful tribute to Pat.
R.I.P Pat.
I only had the pleasure of meeting Pat once and that was at the open day last year. I recognised her and approached her to say hello and she seemed to know my name. We chatted briefly and in that short time I could tell what a lovely lady she was.
More so of course like many of us, I admired her work which she shared on Facebook. It’s funny how some names just stick in your mind and I remember thinking -oh there’s another beauty by Pat. She just seemed to be able to master every craft. Such a Talent! It was great to be reminded of some of her creations above – Thankyou Grace for sharing. RIP dear Pat – we will miss your presence in our Clarity family.
Such sad news – I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting Pat – but her crafting was always superb.
My thoughts & prayers to all her family
Xx
Such sad news and the loss of a very talented lady. RIP Pat. Your art will live on and be enjoyed by us all. xx
I never got to meet Pat but I admired her work and when I put a picture of one of my first pieces of groovi she commented on it. I was tickled pink that she had seen it and what I thought of as being a very novice piece she had taken the time to comment. May you rest in peace Pat.
Never had the pleasure of meeting Pat but what a talented lady and what a legacy to leave. RIP x
RIP Pat. We never got to meet, but you inspired me with your fantastic work.
Thinking of all your family on their sad loss.
Xx
Such a fabulous collection of art work – what an inspirational lady! I got to meet her briefly at last year’s Open Day – she was such a lovely person.
My thoughts & prayers are with her family & friends. This was a life well lived xx