Laurie Self

Laurie Self (1923-2001) was an amateur painter, who lived in Suffolk. Not much is known about his life on the internet, apart from that his paintings were displayed in the foyer at the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall during 1998's Meltdown arts festival.

Links To Peel
Peel described Laurie Self as a friend and neighbour. He arranged for pictures of Laurie Self's work to be displayed at the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall, when he was curating the 1998 Meltdown arts festival. Peel paid tribute to the artist in the Radio Times in an article (later published in the Olivetti Chronicles, Corgi edition, p240) under the title of New Year's Eve):

"'Laurie was one of a small number of people I have known that I have admired unreservedly. Among the happiest days of my life were those in the eighties wen Laurie and I cycled out across East Anglia almost everyday with a pub as our short-term destination and extreme fitness as our unrealistic goal. Laurie Self, fifteen years my senior, was as gentle and funny a person as I have known, and if there is any good in me then at least a part of it will have come directly from my friend. Four of Laurie's paintings, a distillation of the spirit of the Suffolk countryside through which we cycled together, hang on our walls, but we won't need them to remind ourselves that here was a lovely man.'"