The Paint Detective

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Enjoy an evening with Patrick Baty, an expert on the paint and colours of the past four centuries. In the 1980s Patrick Baty produced a range of paint colours based on those offered by a Scottish house-painter in 1807, this sparked off the present wave of historically-themed paint ranges which are still seen today. In April 2000, Homes & Gardens described him as being "Undoubtedly the most influential of our (paint) experts…whose breadth and depth of knowledge is unrivalled". In recent years, on two separate occasions, he has been employed by ICI ( Dulux ) and The Little Greene to develop ranges of traditional paint colours for English Heritage . Colour ranges have also been produced for the French and German markets. The majority of Patrick’s time is now spent as a historic paint consultant, sampling paint layers on buildings, bridges and architectural details to produce a forensic history of the decoration from creation to the present day. He has worked everywhere from Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to Queen Charlotte’s Cottage at Kew, and even Tower Bridge. Frequently he is employed purely as an advisor on appropriate paint and colour in buildings of all ages. Venue: Members' Room, 7 Pier Road

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