Local Artist's Family Ask for Help Finding Pictures Left on 220 Bus

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Shepherd's Bush based Peter Blegvad 'distraught' at losing works on Monday

 

The family of writer, musician and artist Peter Blegvad, who lives in Shepherd's Bush, are appealing for help finding six of his pictures after he left them on a 220 bus heading from Shepherd's Bush to Wandsworth at midday on 24 September.

Peter's wife, artist and designer Chloe Fremantle, son Viggo and daughter Kaye have all taken to Twitter to ask local people for assistance finding the pictures, shown above and below.

Kaye tweeted @kayeblegvad: "London pals; my lovely dad has lost a tonne of his work on the bus, pieces he’s been working on for years. Lost yesterday 24/09, on the 220 to Wandsworth - he got off @ Shepherds Bush Green. 3 pics framed, 3 matted.

"Please spread the word and keep an eye out. Reward offered!!"

Viggo had the same message but added @ViggoBlegvad: " TWITTER! Please help - my ol painter dad has left a TONNE of work from the last years ON THE BUS! He's heartbroken."

Their mum Chloe, who like her husband has exhibited her work at a number of local studios and who also teaches yoga at Hammersmith's Grove Neighbourhood Centre, supplied further details, tweeting @ChloeFremantle: " HELP! These pictures were left on a 220 bus yesterday at W13, Shepherds Bush stop - heading to Wandsworth( 3 in black frames)- they took 6 months for Peter Blegvad to make-he is distraught.

" Please forward, retweet etc they were in bubble wrap in a big Cass Art plastic carrier bag."

This is an example of Cass' colourful range of bags - you can see the full range here.

After receiving many supportive messages, Kaye tweeted a follow-up message, saying: " thanks so much for the RTs and support today about my dad's lost artwork. No news yet but I'll update if they're found, and in the meantime I'm passing on all your kind messages to him."

Peter Blegvad is a writer, artist, cartoonist, songwriter and broadcaster who was born in New York City in 1951.

You can see an introduction to his life-long epistemological project Imagine, Observe, Remember here. Related works have been exhibited in galleries across Europe.

He is also a musician, and in the 1970s formed the avant garde pop group Slapp Happy with Anthony Moore and Dagmar Krause. Since then they have had a number of reunions and Peter has also continued to write songs. His latest album Go Figure was released in 2017 on the ReR MegaCorp label.

Among his published works is The Book of Leviathan a collection of the comic strip he drew from 1992 to 1999 for the Independent on Sunday.

He also taught creative writing at Warwick University, was Senior Tutor in Visual Writing at the RCA and has taught at other institutions in the UK and abroad.

 

Work by Peter and Chloe will be on show at ACAVA Studios in Hythe Road, north of Wormwood Scrubs during ArtWest Open Studios Weekend, featuring the work of over 40 local artists across five venues on 6 and 7 October. Find out more at ArtWest's website.

 

September 27, 2018