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‘I’ve seen the bare bones of London’: street painter Peter Brown interviewed

Pete the Street describes how the country has changed under lockdown

‘I was really interested in painting the relaxing of lockdown. I wanted to find people again’: Fleet Street, by Peter Brown. 
issue 01 May 2021

‘I’ve been seeing the bare bones of London,’ explains the landscape artist Peter Brown, who is known affectionately as ‘Pete the Street’. We meet on the corner of St Martin’s Lane, where he is painting the view facing north, taking in the Coliseum, the Duke of York theatre and an Iranian restaurant called Nutshell.

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