About

Background:

Peter was self taught, over many years, but learned much from his colleagues in various art clubs and organisations. He ran art clubs in Brüggen (Germany, mid 1970s), Innsworth (Gloucestershire, early 1980s) and Rheindahlen (Germany, mid 1980s). He was also and active member of Patchings Farm Art Centre during it’s first ten years.

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

“In 2008 Peter was invited to become the Membership Secretary for Art on the Map (AOTM). He then took an active part, as a member of the new AOTM Steering Group, in rejuvenating that organisation by organising the five Cluster Group areas and planning new activities for AOTM 2008 – 2009 and beyond.

Peter Montgomery has recently written his autobriography 'Have Wheels Will Travel'.

Open Exhibitions:

Peter has exhibited and sold paintings regularly with all of the above organisations.

In addition, his paintings were particularly successful in the following exhibitions:

    1994: North Kesteven Competition – “Cogglesford Mill”: Awarded the “Peoples Prize”.
    1994: War Veterans Competition in Nottingham: Awarded first prize: “Parry’s Court”.
    1995: Selected for Laing Exhibition in Birmingham: “Harvest in Lincolnshire Wolds”.
    1995: Ruddock’s of Lincoln Open Competition: First Prize for “Storm over Hungary”.
    1996: CRA Gallery, St Albans: Awarded Certificate of Merit for “Crowned Cranes”.
    1997: CRA Gallery, St Albans: Awarded Certificate of Merit for “Giraffes on Masai Mara”.
    2000: First Prize in The Artist Open Competition (judged in London) for “Monet’s Bridge”.
   
One-Man Exhibitions:

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

    1997: Lakes & Mountains: Irton House, Near Bassenthwaite, Cumbria with ten paintings.
    1998: Central Library, Lincoln: First local one-man show, with fifty paintings.
    1998: The Pavilion Gallery, Patchings Farm Art Centre: eighteen pastel paintings.
    1998: The Bottle & Glass, Scothern: seven paintings.
    1998: The Art Centre Gallery, Grantham: fifty paintings.
    1999: The Pavilion Gallery, Patchings Farm Art Centre: forty-nine paintings.
    1999: The Art Centre Gallery, Grantham: fifty-two paintings.
    1999: St Germain’s Church, Scothern: twelve paintings.
    1999: The Bottle & Glass, Scothern: twelve paintings.
    2003: The Art Centre Gallery, Grantham: Illustrated talk, with twenty paintings.
    2003: The Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln: forty-one paintings.
    2003: The Trinity Art Centre, Gainsborough: sixteen paintings.
    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; Looking ahead, Peter has booked The Sam Scorer Gallery, for autumn 2009.

Interruptions:

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 him the opportunity to start work on an autobiography, and to plan this web site, before he resumed painting again in July 2007.