Patricia Margaret Kitchen (23 May 1934 – 23 November 2005) was an English novelist, biographer and art critic.
[1] Born in Battersea to middle-class parents, she grew up in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
After rejecting an offer from Cambridge University she moved to London in 1954, working in a Mayfair advertising agency while moonlighting as a hat-check girl in the night club Le Club Contemporain.
While working at the Royal College of Art she met the painter Frank Bowling when he was still a student there.
[2] After divorcing Bowling in the late 1960s, Kitchen went on to live with, and later marry, the writer Dulan Barber.