Comments on: Peri Parkes’ East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579483 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:05:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579483 An absolutely wonderful collection of images – and memories. A true talent, as was Doreen Fletcher’s. I trust he found his new life in Cornwall fulfilling, and wonderful to think that he will have shared his talents and passions with those Cornish students.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579449 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:29:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579449 I love the one of Arnold Circus.

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579441 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:51:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579441 These paintings are quite amazing: thanks so much for revealing them to us!

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579431 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:53:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579431 Amazingly photographic quality.

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579430 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:53:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579430 Mr Parkes’ paintings are in a class of their own. Brilliant.

]]> By: Kate Bacon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579415 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:48:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579415 ….and of course the influence could well have been the other way around as both artists worked in the same period!

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579402 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 07:27:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579402 Peri has captured images of the East End I grew up in and has painted them with such honesty.
They are perfect.
Thank you to Zoe and Lucie for sharing this poignant story.

]]> By: Kate Bacon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579395 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 06:53:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579395 What wonderful work, I’m so glad you discovered Peri Parkes through Doreen Fletcher (I can see how she was influenced by his style). I visited St Just on holidays to Cornwall as a young child – I quite understand why Peri was captivated by the place.

]]> By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/07/peri-parkes-east-end-i/#comment-1579388 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 05:54:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199942#comment-1579388 I look at these paintings and I am back .
It reminds me of that old East End saying ,”You can take the boy away from Stepney ,but you can’t take away Stepney from inside the boy .”

What makes this article superlative is the interchange between the daughters and the pictures themselves .

Thank you from all that is good for the time you gave me Gentle Author and wanting to hear my story . It is rare to get this . Bless you .

I reckon there are many East Enders out there with some special stories just hoping and waiting somebody would listen to them .

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