Auburn hair, a watercolour box in her bag and a real weakness for old black and white.
Photographs compared with Patricia in person · listing checked September 2026 · Photo policy
A watercolour box travels in her bag, and it is not for show. Patricia is 172 cm, slim, her auburn brown hair worn long, her brown eyes settling on things a little longer than most people's do, which is what makes her good at drawing them. Late twenties. She dresses softly and without much structure: a long cardigan, a dress that moves, flat boots for walking, and a scarf she will end up lending you when the wind comes off the river.
Gentle is the accurate word and attentive is the one that matters. She is a romantic in the unfashionable sense, the sort who notices a detail about an evening and mentions it three hours later. Her English is fluent and soft. Painting is the daily practice, mostly small and mostly of buildings. Film noir is the obsession, the rainier the better. Second hand bookshops swallow entire afternoons of hers, along with a surprising amount of money.
Her South Bank evening belongs to BFI Southbank, tucked under the bridge approach, where four screens run restorations and seasons that nowhere else bothers with. She likes the bar beforehand, the one lined with old posters, and the riverside walk afterwards past the book stalls under the arches. If the tide is out and the evening is mild she will take the long way back along the water without mentioning that she is doing it.
Belgravia is home, and a quiet evening in Waterloo wants a day or two of notice rather than an hour. Put a date to booking and she will happily choose the film herself.
Her home stage is Belgravia, and she travels from there to the venues this house covers. Her full listing sits with the rest of the company on the companions page.
Quiet evenings suit her, and a day or two of notice is better than a last minute hour. Three hours at £700 covers the bar, the screening and the walk along the water afterwards. Once the room is confirmed, nothing further is asked of you.
Each length on the ladder, the travel rule and the terms for a change of plan are set out line by line on the rates page, and the wording to send sits on the booking page.
// Time and companionship only · travelling anywhere across Zones 1 and 2 adds nothing · the figure is settled with her in person
She wants to get there early enough for a drink in the bar beneath the posters, where the seats are worn and nobody has ever hurried anybody. She will have looked up what is showing and will offer two options rather than one, which is her way of being decisive without being bossy about it.
In the screening she is absolutely still and afterwards she is quiet for a good five minutes, which she will warn you about in advance. Then it comes: what the rain was doing in the third act, why the lighting was the whole point. The walk back along the water is the proper end of it, past the book stalls if they are still open, and she will not be rushed past them.
Because they trusted you to keep up. Nothing is explained twice, and the best scene is usually the one with no dialogue in it at all.
Small things, badly, in the mornings. Doorways and rooftops mostly. It is how I look at a city properly rather than just walking through it.
Rudeness that I promise is not rudeness. I need a moment to finish watching before I can start talking about it.
Patricia is on call today. Quiet evenings, best asked a day or two ahead Message the desk and we will confirm the hour before anything is held.
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