{"id":777626,"date":"2026-09-21T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777626\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:22:15","slug":"new-zealand-man-to-honour-father-and-renowned-suffolk-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777626\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand man to honour father and renowned Suffolk artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The son of a late wildlife artist has flown from New Zealand to the UK because he wants his father&#8217;s work to receive the recognition he believes it deserves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Partington, who lived in Kettlebaston, Suffolk, created hundreds of pieces of art dedicated to nature before his death in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His son, Jerome Partington, has now created a book to honour Peter&#8217;s life&#8217;s work and is hosting events in aid of charities that were close to his father&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jerome said: &#8220;When Dad died a bit out of the blue. I thought thousands of people knew him, but he hadn&#8217;t had much recognition. So we created this book, and in a way, Dad&#8217;s done all the hard work. He&#8217;s painted all these incredible pictures&#8230;I&#8217;ve just put them together in a way that hopefully tells a story.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of a late wildlife artist has flown from New Zealand to the UK because he wants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-777626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}