Fig. 1. Middleton, Colin. The Dark Tower Oil on canvas.

Fig. 2. Piper, John. Somerset Place, Bath Pencil, ink and gouache on paper. Tate Collection, London.

Fig. 3. Trinity Street Church, Belfast, 12 July, Post 381 The memoirs of a Belfast air raid warden. By James Doherty. Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press,

Fig. 4. Middleton, Colin. The Fortune Teller Oil on canvas. Private Collection.

Fig. 5. Armstrong, John. Coggeshall Church, Essex Tempera on wood. Tate Collection, London.

Fig. 6. Games, Abram. Your Britain, Fight For It Now Photo-gravure. Imperial War Museum Collection, London.

Fig. 7. Middleton, Colin. The Holy Lands Oil on canvas.

Fig. 8. Middleton, Colin. Siren over Belfast Oil on canvas. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Fig. 9. Middleton, Colin. The Refugee Oil on canvas. Private Collection.

Fig. 10. Middleton, Colin. Allotments on Annadale Embankment Oil on canvas. Private Collection.

Fig. 11. Ernst, Max. The Angel of Hearth and Home Oil on canvas. Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich.

Fig. 12. Middleton, Colin. Strange Openings. c1942. Oil on canvas. Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin.

Fig. 13. de Chirico, Giorgio. The Enigma of a Day Oil on canvas. Museum Of Modern Art, New York.