E17 Art House

The seven paintings below, which are all acrylic paint on canvas can be viewed and bought at E17 Art House, 6-10 Church Hill Road, Stainforth Road entrance,
Walthamstow,
 E17 3RY.
Telephone: (020) 8509 8211.

Connaught Water with yellow foreground.

Japanese mountain and lake with yellow foreground

Copper Green sky and white-flash lighting-bolt .

Blood Red sky, raging blue river and violet tree in letter-box format.

Yellow trees in Epping Forest with violet foreground

Fauve Red forest with Ice Blue path

Connaught Water: Orange foreshore and Ultramarine sky

The Red Bird

Connaught Water Chingford

Connaught Water Chingford

Turner: the burning of the Houses of Parliament 1834

Coventry Cathedral:cropped version ( See the Hove Town Hall fire image below)

Bombed-out Coventry Cathedral 1940 by John Piper

Arctic Landscape 1995

After fire and hot orange from Peter, ice from my years at John Cass

Last orders, last trains 1994 by Peter Saunders

Palace Theatre London 1987 by Peter Saunders

A later painting than the Hove Town Hall painting below: less illustrative, more gestural, and close to the work that I remember from my time at John Cass Art School.

HoveTown Hall on fire 1966 by Peter Saunders

This painting was probably produced in a studio  from on-the-spot-sketches, and brings Turner's paintings of the burning of the Houses of Parliament to mind. Turner famously worked from rapid watercolour sketches, milling with the crowds watching Parliament burn, and  later worked up ambitious oil-paintings, using his powerful imagination and visual memory.( See above)

Also, it also reminds me of  the well-known architectural image by John Piper of Coventry Cathedral after the bombing raid of 1940. (See above.)

Obituary of Peter Saunders

I was depressed today to stumble across Peter's obituary in the Guardian, while browsing on-line.
Peter taught me, if that is not overstating the case, at the John Cass Art School in Whitechapel in the 1990s.
 He was a wonderful painter, albeit overlooked by the mass media, latterly working in the style of Auerbach, but with a  better colour -sense.
 He died at the end of 2011, but I have not seen him for over ten years.
Any chance reader of this blog is urged to Google Peter Saunders, painter.