After years of appalling high school grades, Peter's mother, a successful artist in her own right, had the good sense and foresight to sign him up for life drawing classes.

 

Around the same time, a renegade group of Australian art school tutors caught up in a scandal after one of them stripped off during a student lecture opened a small art school in Far North Queensland just south of where Peter’s family lived at the time. 

 

Armed with his average grades and a portfolio of naked lady sketches, Peter enrolled at the school and so began a creative journey that has seen him work as an illustrator, artist, award winning advertising creative and screenwriter.

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Peter has written and directed short films and is obsessed with combining his storytelling abilities with his art practice. His current project "Hallelujah, I'm a bum!'  explores civil unrest and protest in New Zealand during the Great Depression.   

 

Peter is a Unison Colour Associate Artist (a U.K. based soft pastel company) and currently resides in the New Zealand bush west of Auckland.

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