Sinclair Seamen’s Church, Marcus Patton

Sinclair Seamen’s Presbyterian Church, Corporation Square Belfast.

This historic church building in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter was designed by the architect Charles Lanyon and opened in 1857. The interior is Venetian in style and it houses many artefacts of a maritime nature.

Marcus Patton, a past director and chairman of Belfast Print Workshop, was born in Enniskillen and studied architecture at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Patton’s work ranges from pen-and- ink drawings to watercolours, often of architectural subjects, and from concert posters-about 400 to date, many hand-printed in silk-screen-to caricatures. He has completed commissions for the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and for the White House, creating the poster marking President Clinton’s visit to Belfast in 2000. He was awarded the OBE in 1995.