| Description | Colour photographs taken by Tom Lyddon of female workers at the car wash under the railway arches in Three Colt Street, Limehouse. Used for painting P/LYD/1/1.
Tom Lyddon reflects: 'In the late 1980's I began to be serious about learning to paint. I found that the artist John Copnall gave painting lessons locally in the artists colony in the former Spratts dog biscuit factory.
I enrolled on Lessons once a week and having the use of his studio could paint on a larger scale.
At this time I drove a licensed black cab which gave me the freedom to follow my artistic interests.
Black cabs need to be kept clean so I often used the car wash under the railway arches in Three Colt Street, Limehouse. This car wash was mainly staffed by women, who I believe were of east European origin.
Waiting in line for my turn gave me the opportunity to photograph them at work which I used to compose the painting.'
Attached label: entered and exhibited in the Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery. |