We will have a vinyl on street hoarding display of the Norman Partridge painting ‘Croydon Courageous’. Norman Partridge was born in Thornton Heath in 1921. He studied at the Croydon Art School. During the Second World War served in the army for two years before being discharged with rheumatism.
In his spare time, Partridge worked on his own paintings which included painting ‘Croydon Courageous’. The work is based on rough sketches of bomb sites around Croydon and the finished painting is a montage of several locations. This painting also reflects the different roles in the war effort from Air Raid Wardens, Ambulance, Stretcher Party to YMCA volunteers.
The painting is in the Museum of Croydon collection, there is an online exhibition to support at: https://museumofcroydon.com/exhibitions-online
