Peter Firmin
Birth Date: 1928
Death Date: 2018
Birth Place:Essex
School: Central School of Arts & Crafts
Peter Arthur Firmin (11 December 1928 – 1 July 2018) was an English artist and puppet maker. He was the founder of Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate. Between them they created a number of popular children's TV programmes, The Saga of Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood.
He studied at the Central School of Arts & Crafts under Keith Vaughan, Laurence Scarfe, Roderick Barett and Gertrude Hermes in the early 1950s. Two of his wood engraved illustrations for Virgil are illustrated in William Johnstone, ‘Graphic Design at the Central School’, Penrose Annual 47 (1953), pp.58-60.
For books by or about this maker see the TALIS catalogue