Peter works mainly in oil paint.  As well as a continued interest in portraiture, particularly of his friends,  his figurative work is increasingly based on found photos from which he teases out narrative threads that inevitably relate to his own personal experience.  Often salvaged from boot fairs and junk shops in Italy he uses these once treasured snaps of strangers; already invested with their own melancholia of abandonment,  to reflect on his families own fractured relationship with that country and the rootless experience of immigration and interpersonal relationships. 

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As a long time filmmaker these forgotten photographs now provide his cast and setting as an extension of narrative imagination but in a new medium. He looks forward to continuing to develop and find new ways to capture character, emotion and personality rather than exact likeness and hopes the viewer will bring their own interpretation to the work.

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

 

After moving to London he gravitated to filmmaking as his main medium and after graduating at degree level and working on pop promos he attended the Royal College of Art for his Masters where he made several short films that won 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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​He also directed 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 to a long held ambition of working with oil paints.

 

Meeting, sharing ideas with, and becoming a very active member of the international Cane.Yo artist's collective has been a very stimulating experience for him and they have put on group shows in Belgium, the UK, France, Germany and Gibraltar.

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