Leonard Squirrell

A most distinguished and well-loved Suffolk artist, Leonard Squirrell spent his childhood at 82 Spring Road. After training at the Ipswich School of Art, he went on to the Slade School in London.

An admired and outstanding topographical artist he depicted the landscapes of Suffolk and East Anglia at its exquisite best, he also produced works in Italy and France.

Squirrell was also supremely talented as an etcher and pastelist, but he is best known as a watercolourist, being a very prolific artist of railway carriage prints and glowing railway posters. He was lauded for his outstanding watercolours for a number of commercial companies including Rolls Royce.

Very much at home with local companies who used his work Squirrell produced small masterpieces for Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries and Fisons. All his work is much sought after.

The plaque was unveiled in October 2010.