Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa

I am not sure that, before today, I had ever heard of the word 'Camoufleur'.  It comes from the French, of course, and refers to those artists and others who were responsible for creating camouflage for buildings and military installations in wartime.

The exhibition at the Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery this summer focuses on the team of WWII camoufleurs who were based at various sites in the town.

This painting shows them at work in their workshop.  Other paintings showed the painted buildings, hangars and even the painting done on airfields (below) to disguise wartime activities.