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.

2012 E17 Art-Trail

Today is day one of the 2012  E17 Art -Trail and a celebration of five years of Inky-Cuttlefish.