Canon Edward Paterson

Born in Scotland and raised in South Africa, British army service in what is now Namibia. He received an army scholarship to study art at the Central School of Arts & Crafts.

biography: Paterson of Cyrene, 1985

The following information comes from research done by Dr Jonathan Zilberg of the University of Indonesia:
Canon Edward Paterson trained at Central School of Arts & Crafts between 1920 and 1923. He spent a large part of his working life in Africa and started the Cyrene mission in Rhodesia in 1937, where he taught art. Some of his Cyrene students went on to become the first Zimbabwean stone sculptors.
From 1957 to 1973 he worked in Salisbury where he taught schoolchildren at Chirodzo, Farayi and Nyarutsetso.
In 1949, an exhibition of art from the Cyrene mission toured England, and in the 1950s work by Paterson's students at Chirodzo was shown in America by the Smithsonian Institute.

see also P.785; David Walker
Author: David Walker