Peter Blagg born 1937

Peter Blagg was born in Finchley, North London. Married to the painter Linda Sutton. Blagg attended St. Albans School of Art in 1954; went into the Royal Air Force for National Service in 1955. On his release from the Air Force completed his design diploma at St. Albans. His teachers included Norman Adams, William Scott, Anthony Fry, Carel Weight and Elizabeth Frink. Later obtained his teaching diploma and taught up to the graduate level. In 1961 moved to Cornwall and held his first solo show at the Newlyn Art Gallery in 1963 of pictures depicting landscape around Redruth and second exhibition at the Piccadilly Gallery, London. Blagg's writer friend John Branfield based his novel 'In the Country' on the painter's experiences. In the 1970's Blagg pioneered the application of multi imaging. Blagg was a painter in tandem in multimedia work for rockshows including Status Quo. Work included in mixed show in 1996 in Belgrave Gallery and a retrospective at Boxfield Gallery, Stevenage Arts Centre in 1997 (Extract from 'British Artists since 1945' by David Buckman) '.As a native of Cambourne-Redruth, I know what visually these towns are far from inspiring. Mining has shaped both of them, together with the surrounding countryside, so that finding an artist at work here is something of a surprise.. ...Peter Blagg captured much of the character of the area in his work, but unaccountably seems to have been overlooked by critics and historians of art in Cornwall... ..It takes an exceptional artist to find inspiration here, to rise above the overwhelming melancholy of industry dead and gone – of subsistence farming, but Blagg does allow himself the luxury of painting the neighbouring sea-coast, indulging in positively `Lanyonesque` gestural works with their freely brushed imagery. These are unique...' (Michael Canney Artist and Curator Newlyn Art Gallery 1956)