Peter Stroud began his artistic career during the tail end of World War II, after being stationed in Italy and Germany as a conscript in the British army. A prominent figure in the Situation Group, Stroud’s follows the abstraction and geometric-constructivism of British art in the 1950s and 1960s. The London-based Situation Group was heavily influences by the contemporary art scene of America, making large-scale abstract paintings on the model of the New York School. Noted for their professionalism and international ambition, this artist collective worked in tension with the liberalism and confined principles of the British Pop movement.