Middleditch was profoundly affected by his experience of the Second World War and rarely do people or anything man-made find there way into his work. Although stylistically grouped with ‘The Kitchen Sink Painters’ the artist draws on nature for his inspiration, transporting hills, rocks, water and in this case vegetation and animal life to the canvas. As Helen Lessore noted in the exhibition catalogue of The South Bank Centre show: “ Middleditch always confronts his subject head on, and places it centrally in the picture-space. He is pre-occupied with ideas or problems about composition. What he has seen itself dictates the composition. That is to say, he is really concerned with making, not so much a picture as an image . . . He has no mannerisms, but that much bigger quality: style. He is a maker of memorable images.”