Contemporary artist Sir Peter Blake is often called ‘The Godfather of the British Pop Art movement’ along side artist David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield and Richard Hamilton. His colourful and very graphic works use the imagery for popular culture. He is best known for creating the Beatles album cover for Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967 creating art that reflected the age but its not his own favourite work.
Sir Peter was born in 1932 in Dartford and studied at Gravesend School of Art and the Royal College of Art and received a knighthood in 2002 as honorary doctor of the Royal College of Art for his services to the visual arts.