“Peter takes a subject and through his camera lens they become haunting and magical and stay in the mind. Photographs that transcend technique, (although important) into a strong and powerful visual art form. The images create a kind of visual alchemy, that draws the spectator in”.

John Sprakes, painter, RBA RO.

Artist Statement.

 The majority of my work is concerned with landscape, in one form or other. I am always observing, collecting information and images. I make work constantly, if not photographs, musical sketches or scraps of writing. Interpreting, re-imagining places and situations. Often when beginning work on a new project, I discover that actually the beginnings of it were seeded years before in images made, collected and forgotten.

 However, it is only in my studio that I discover how the work is going to reveal itself and take form. This process is always difficult, where time is lost, and ideas fail and are reborn continuously, until a thread can be followed out,and the path through the work becomes clearer. A piece becomes complete when I feel it fits with the image that I have of it completed… the problem being that this also changes … but the work remains, as a marker along a section of a route now passed. I feel that it is important to never close off a piece of work, to leave space for the viewer to bring their own thoughts and interpretations to the pieces, to complete the work on their own terms using their own reference points and imagination.

 Over the last few years my work has evolved from being purely photographic, to now being a hybrid of various media which are combined in creating the final completed images.

Selected Exhibitions (from 2020 onwards).

 Beverly Art Gallery, February 2020

 Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, 2020

 The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 2020

 The Howarth Art Gallery, Lancashire, March 2020

 York Open Studios, July 2021

 Residuum, The Courtyard Gallery, Dalby Forest , May  2021

 York Open Studios – April 2022

 Inspired By Gallery, Danby. May 2022

 The Yorkshire Arboretum , Castle Howard, May 2022

 Blossom Street Gallery, York, April – May 2023

 The Old Parcels Office Gallery, Scarborough, July 2023

 Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Open Exhibition, August – October 2023

Dean Clough, Halifax, Leeds Fine Artists Members Exhibition, October ’23 – January ’24.

Studio 11 Hull, Dark Matters Exhibition,  October –  November ’24

The Yorkshire Gallery, Wath Court, Hovingham , Winter Exhibition, November – December ’24

York Open Studios, Arnup Studios, April ’25

Saltbox Gallery, Helmsley, Featured Artist, July ’25

Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Open Exhibition, September – January ’25/26

The Leaping Hare Gallery, Easingwold. November ‘25

The Little Picture Show, Inspired by Gallery, Danby, October ‘25

Pyramid Gallery York, April- May ‘26

The Studio Gallery, Inspired by Gallery, Danby, June - ‘26