MERVYN PEAKE - THE MAN AND HIS ART
4 October – 28 October 2006
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The Glassblowers
The following series are preparatory drawings for a set of poems by Mervyn
Peake published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1950 entitled The Glassblowers.
Peake wrote them when, in his words, he was "commissioned as a war-artist
to record my impressions of work in a glass-blowing factory near Birmingham,
I found on entering the huge, ruinous, grimy, wharfwalled building a world upon
its own, a place of roaring fires and monstrous shadows."
