Background

Peter was born and raised in Sleaford and he started work with the Forestry Commission when he left school. Three years later he was called-up for National Service, which unexpectedly led to a career in the Royal Air Force.

St Deny's Church, Sleaford

Peter is self taught as an artist. Over many years he learned much from self-study, as well as from his colleagues in various art clubs and organisations. He also ran art clubs in Brüggen (Germany, mid 1970s), Innsworth (Gloucestershire, early 1980s) and Rheindahlen (Germany, mid 1980s). He was also and active member of the Patchings Farm Art Centre in Nottinghamshire, from 1991 until 2001, and he still maintains contact with Liz, Chas and Pat Wood.

Peter is an active member of the Lincolnshire Artist’s Society (LAS) and he was a member of the LAS Management Committee from 2002 – 2005. Peter was involved with the initial concept of the Sam Scorer Art Gallery in Lincoln, in 1997, and he is still an active Trustee of the Gallery. He is also a member of the Nadin Group.

Parry's Court , Sleaford

In 2008 Peter was invited to become the Membership Secretary for Lincolnshire Open Studios / Art on the Map (AOTM). He then took an active part, as a member of the new AOTM Steering Group, in helping to rejuvenate that organisation by setting-up the five Cluster Group areas and planning new AOTM activities for 2008 – 2010 and beyond. Peter has exhibited and sold paintings regularly with all of the above organisations.

Peter has recently written his autobiography ‘Have Wheels Will Travel’.

Open Exhibitions:

Cogglesford Mill, Sleaford

In addition to the above, Peter’s paintings were particularly successful in the following exhibitions:

1994: War Veterans Competition in Nottingham: Awarded first prize for: “Parry’s Court, Sleaford”.
1994: North Kesteven Competition – “Cogglesford Mill”: Awarded the “Peoples Prize”.
1995: Selected for Laing Exhibition in Birmingham for pastel painting: “Harvest Time in the Lincolnshire Wolds”.

Harvest, Lincolnshire Wolds

1995: Ruddock’s of Lincoln Open Competition: Awarded First Prize for “Gathering Storm”.   

1996: CRA Gallery, St Albans: Certificate of Merit for “Crowned Cranes”.
1997: CRA Gallery, St Albans: Certificate of Merit for “Giraffes, Kenya”.
2000: First Prize in The Artist Open Competition (judged in London) for “Monet’s Bridge, Giverny”.
   
One-Man Exhibitions

In addition to the above, Peter has held the following successful one-man exhibitions:

1997: Lakes & Mountains: Irton House, Cumbria with ten paintings.
1998: Central Library, Lincoln: Peter’s first major one-man exhibition, with fifty paintings.
1998: The Pavilion Gallery, Patchings Farm Art Centre: 18 pastel paintings.

The Bottle & Glass, Scothern

1998: The Bottle & Glass, Scothern: seven paintings.
1998: The Art Centre Gallery, Grantham: fifty paintings.
1999: The Pavilion Gallery, Patchings Farm Art Centre: 49 paintings.
1999: St Germain’s Church, Scothern: twelve paintings.
1999: The Bottle & Glass, Scothern: twelve paintings.
2003: The Art Centre Gallery, Grantham: An illustrated talk, with 20 paintings.
2003: The Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln: forty-one paintings.
2003: The Trinity Art Centre, Gainsborough: sixteen paintings.

St Germain's in Winter, Scothern

2003: Art-on-the-Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern.
2004: Art-on-the-Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern.
2005: Art-on-the-Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern.
2006: Art-on-the-Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern.
2007: Art-on-the-Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern.
2008: Art on the Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern.
2009: Art on the Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern
2009: The Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln: Fifty-five Paintings.

2010: Art on the Map: Beech Cottage Studio, Scothern
2010: The Bottle & Glass, Scothern: twenty paintings. 

Interruptions

Autobiography

Peter had an unexpected break from his painting in 2004 when his left eye was removed, after what should have been a routine minor operation. He had just got back to painting again in 2006 when he had a bad fall out of his wheelchair, in Bavaria, which put him into hospital for three weeks and his right shoulder out of action for the next twelve months. Those two unexpected breaks of about three years gave Peter the opportunity to start work on an autobiography, and to plan his own web site, before he resumed painting again in July 2007.