Fascinated by all cultural mediums while growing up in Cardiff Peter wrote and sold a handmade music fanzine at clubs and gigs whilst still at school and dove headlong into the ‘do it yourself’ culture that erupted from the genesis of the Punk movement.

 

After moving to London he gravitated to filmmaking as his dominant medium and after graduating from the Polytechnic of Central London and working on pop promos he attended the Royal College of Art for his Masters where he made several short films that won many prizes and were all broadcast on national television. 

 

He was jointly awarded the Fleur Cowles prize for outstanding student at the RCA in any discipline and also a BAFTA Fulbright scholarship which he used to attend the University of Southern California studying screenwriting. Whilst there he lectured in short filmmaking at both NYU and Columbia universities.

 

Returning to London he made shorts and then long form films for the BBC and Channel 4 (‘The Cutter’ with Brian Cox, ‘Dirtysomething’ with Rachel Weisz and ‘Blue Juice’ with Catherine Zeta Jones and Ewan McGregor) .

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As his wife was also directing long form films and they had a child he then concentrated on directing many award winning commercials for markets in and on all five continents including Levis, Adidas, Ford, British Telecom, Nokia, Volvo, Intel etc.

 

The pandemic made him reappraise how he wanted to continue his artistic journey on a more personally expressive level and he has  consequently moved onto a long held ambition of working with oil paints.

 

Meeting, sharing ideas with and becoming a very active member of the international Cane-Yo group of artists has been a powerfully stimulating experience for him as they put on shows together internationally; in Belgium, the UK and Gibraltar in this year alone.

 

His personal work is based around portraiture whilst trying to find a narrative thread of character and the echoes of a larger world off canvas. He sees this as an extension of his filmic storytelling work but in a new medium and looks forward to continuing to develop and finding new ways to capture character, emotion and personality rather than exact likeness.