Rome paintings
My paintings of the Eternal City followed a short stay at the British School in Rome. ‘The Presence of the Past’ was the title of the Venice Biennale for 198###. This set the agenda for my academic concern with architectural post-modernism for the next few years. But it was the matter-of-fact way in which the Romans of today live with the relics of their past, traffic raging where the emperor’s chariots once raced that caught my visual imagination. I wanted to record such scenes just as they were without comment or satire.
All images are copyright Peter Lloyd Jones