Artist, art historian, and educational facilitator
Rod Pattenden spent four years at art school in the 1970s learning a trade that concerned itself with gesture, colour and light. An unexpected turn found him at theological college which began a life journey of reconciling the sensual illuminating capacity of the arts with the journey of spirituality and theological reflection. It is this question of how life can be an art that is life giving and generous, and how in turn art can express the fulness of being truly human.