Peter Montgomery

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  Sam Scorer GalleryForthcoming Exhibitions:

Peter will be submitting paintings for exhibitions at the following galleries in 2009:

Lincolnshire Artists’ Exhibition
Patchings Farm Art Centre
Claverton, Nottinghamshire
October - November 2008

The Bottle & Glass Restaurant
Scothern, Lincoln
01 December 2008 to 28 February 2009.

The Museum Art Gallery
Grantham
08 December to 09 January 2009

Lincolnshire Artist’ Society Exhibition
Beverly, Yorkshire
25 May to 13 June 2009


Sam Scorer Gallery pictured right

   
  Art on the Map:
Art on the Map
Peter Montgomery will be taking part in the Art on the Map Open Studios event. Weekend Dates - 13 – 14 December 2008, 09 – 10 May 2009, 16 – 17 May 2009

Beech Cottage
4 Church Street
Scothern
Lincoln LN2 2UA (map)

Lincolnshire Open Studios is a county wide event offering the opportunity to visit studios and see work where it is made and even while it is being done. Whether you are interested in arts or crafts, commissioning a new work, buying a special item… there is bound to be something for you.

Visit http://www.artonthemap.org.uk/index.php/open_studios/ to find out more and to view all the artists studios.
 
 

Landscape Master Class:

Master Class In July 2007 the Usher Gallery, part of “The Collection” in Lincoln, organised a summer Master-Class on Landscape Painting. The tutor for the week was the distinguished painter Alan Parker.


Pictured right: In Usher Studio

The first two Days were spent painting a number of sketches on field trips to the ‘’real’’ part of Lincolnshire, i.e. the fens and a remote coastal area. The general theme chosen by Allan was painting Lincolnshire’s mountains – the clouds – of which we had an abundance!

Heckington fenDay one was spent on the banks of the River Slea, near South Kyme, and I selected a view looking across Heckington Fen towards Boston. The second day we were on the sea-bank at Frieston Shore, with spectacular views of clouds over the sea. Looking inland we had views over the lagoons and islands, recently produced by breaching the sea-wall to provide ideal breeding areas for our coastal birds.

Pictured left: Heckington Fen

Frieston Sea BanksThe next three days were spent back at the workshop in the Usher Gallery where we were encouraged to use our sketches to produce finished paintings on large canvases. Towards the end of the week Alan persuaded me to “hide’’ all of my small brushes and to use larger ones with a new (for me) medium called Spectragel. The results were much simpler and more spontaneous paintings, which made quite a change from my usual detailed style.

Pictured right: Frieston Sea Banks

In summary, it was an excellent week which kick-started me back into painting full-time, after an enforced break of about three years, and I haven’t stopped since then! Other Master-Classes organised by the Usher Gallery, which I also attended in recent years, included colour theory, etching, portraits and printing. I can highly recommend these classes organised by the Usher Gallery.

   
  Web Site CaptureWeb site launch:

Peter Montgomery's new web site was launched in August 2007.

In the first twelve months, this web-site received over 99,000 hits, from nearly 11,000 visitors in 6 continents and from 94 different countries.
 
  Have Wheels AutobiographyAutobiography:

Details of 'Have Wheels Will Travel' are now available.

Extracts are now available to read on-line.