Sculptural relief of Mother and Children Playing

Sculptural relief, ‘Mother and Children Playing’, 1951-2 by Peter Laszlo Peri. Mounted on the stair tower of Horton House (not listed).

The relief is of red ochre, tan and yellow coloured concrete laid over an expanded metal mesh and is 1.89m tall and 2.56m wide. It depicts a naturalistic group of a mother and three children dancing in a ring. The mother and boy on the right are modelled in red ochre concrete, the boy in the centre in yellow and the girl on the left in tan. The group spring from a curved projecting brick soldier course. According to the catalogue of a Peri exhibition at the Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery in 1991, the composition was originally framed by dark coloured pointing to the brick to make it stand out from the rest of the surface but this has since been replaced with standard mortar.