Peter Blake (1932-), Painter

Sir Peter Thomas Blake

Sitter in 14 portraits
Artist of 1 portrait
Born in Dartford, Kent, Blake attended Gravesend School of Art (1946-5) before going to the Royal College of Art, from which he graduated in 1956. He taught at St Martin's, Harrow, Walthamstow Schools of Art, and from 1964 to 1976, at the Royal College. Blake's work has always engaged with popular culture, from Children Reading Comics (1954) and ABC Minors (1955). He moved with his then wife, the artist Jann Haworth, to Wellow in Wiltshire in 1969, and in 1975 co-founded the short-lived Brotherhood of Ruralists. Blake was the chronicler of the Pop scene, in works ranging from Beachboys (1962), the first Trichromatic halftone silkscreen, to Madonna of Venice Beach I (1996).