Great Fire of London delft tiles (cont.)

Great Fire of London delft tiles (cont.)

Here is my introduction on yester-day morning's Spitalfields Life for the Artists of Spitalfields Life selling exhibition that starts next week:

Come and see Paul Bommer’s series of forty-eight delft tiles inspired The Great Fire of London 1666 at The Artists of Spitalfields Life opening at Ben Pentreath Ltd on Wednesday 7th November

Like Pieter Breughel, George Cruickshank and Ronald Searle, Paul Bommer’s work is firmly rooted in the European grotesque and populated with distinctive specimens of humanity – conjured into being through his unique quality of line, waggish, calligraphic and lyrical by turns. Fascinated by culture and lore, Paul celebrates the strange stories that interweave to create social identity and the fabric of history, turning his attention to The Great Fire Of London in this latest series of limited edition Delft tiles.

Hare Court

Windmill

Fig Tree Court

Mister Punch. Punch and Judy was first recorded in this country in the diary of Samuel Pepys, performed outside St Paul's church in Covent Garden.

Smithfield Meat Market

Samuel Pepys, diarist.

Memento Mori of the Great Plague 1665