• Peter's studio will be open to the public from Sat 9th March 2019 at the National Trust's Claydon House & Estate. Open Saturday - Wednesday weekly, 11am-5pm. For appointments with Peter, please call or email in advance to ensure Peter is at the studio.

  • Peter's 2019 courses have now been released and for booking at The Courtyard Art Studio.

  • The Longwick Art Exhibition, 23 - 24 February.

  • Peter’s landscape paintings are represented by SOTA Gallery, Witney, Oxfordshire.

  • Peter has filmed some of his most popular art courses with ArtTutor.com which are available to download to your computer/tablet here.

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‘Bruno & Eva’ oil on canvas, 60x80cm One of the commissioned portraits opened as a surprise present for their parents this Christmas. #portrait #portraiture #portraitpainting #oilpainting #painting #oils #contemporarypainting #contemporaryportrait #christmas #christmaspresent
Every year I try to find the time to paint a self-portrait. As time is quickly running out for 2018 I found the time today to do this 3hr oil sketch. Always both a fascinating & difficult thing to stare at your reflection for that amount of time, coming to terms with how old and tired you’re looking 😂 Self-Portrait 2018 Oil on canvas, 50x40cm #portrait #selfportrait #oilportrait #portraiture #allprima #allaprimaportrait
A little more work on my latest commissioned portrait. Trying to develop the likeness and character whilst keeping it loose at the same time. A difficult tightrope to cross! #portrait #portraiture #painting #portraitpainting #oil #oilpaint #contemporaryart #contemporaryportrait #paint #brushstrokes #art #artistsoninstagram
Had the most wonderful morning leading a demonstration at my teaching studio @thecourtyardartstudio It’s been a pleasure opening and running this special art space and I’m so thankful and humbled to all our loyal and supportive customers and students. Here’s the quick 1.5hr demo portrait I did (thank you Yvonne for agreeing to be painted in front of everyone!) and thank you to the 54 people who came along. Scroll through to see me in action 😊 #portrait #portraitpainting #oilportrait #allaprima #allaprimaportrait #art #portraiture #demonstration #demo #teaching #claydoncourtyard
Last few days to catch the @royalinstituteofoilpainters exhibition at the @mallgalleries in London. Closes this Sunday. I have this big painting on display alongside so many superb paintings by so many artists I greatly admire. Don’t miss out! #royalinstituteofoilpainters #portrait #mallgalleries #roi #portraitpainting #oilpainting #oilportrait
Had an enjoyable night painting alongside @royalinstituteofoilpainters members at the @mallgalleries for their annual Live Portrait session. I got lucky with this fantastic model! Great catching up with familiar faces and meeting new painters! #royalinstituteofoilpainters #mallgalleries #portraits #portraitpainting #artistsatwork #portraiture #oilpainting
Opening up my studio for the next couple of weekends for the @claydonestate Courtyard Christmas Shopping Weekends. I’ll be there working on my latest portrait commission and will have a studio sale of some of the paintings I’ve done this year. Open tomorrow from 10am - 4pm, alongside @amandaflyingfox @corzoandwood @claydongallery @lucindabrown53 @horizonframing @phoenixtearooms #christmas #christmasshopping #claydon #claydoncourtyard
Think I’m almost there with this one. Still a few edges I need to soften here and there. Will leave it for a while to work on something else. Then when I know what I need to do, I’ll finished it off. Now I need to think of a title...🤔 Oil on canvas, 70x70cm #oil #oilpainting #painting #portrait #portraitpainting #children #lightandshade
Had a wonderful time at the opening of @royalinstituteofoilpainters annual exhibition and my first time showing with them. Such an inspiring collection of paintings and even better I was able to put faces to ‘social media’ names. Great to meet @adamralstonartist @robpointonartist @dorianraduart @tpstevensonart @frances_bell_paintings @mariaroseartist and always good to catch up with @pennygerman @timbensonart @addictivesketcher @vickinormanart The exhibition is on from Wednesday 28th Nov until Sunday 9th December at @mallgalleries #roi #oil #oilpainting #exhibition #painters #paintings
Best part of the painting - blocking in 😊 now the challenge of obtaining a likeness whilst keeping the exciting brushstrokes. #portrait #portraiture #portraitpainting #oil #oilpainting #commission #portraitcommission
I don’t often do a grisaille (a dark underpainting) for my portraits, but when the life size painting is over 120cm (4foot) and with such a busy and exciting background, I make an exception! As well as discovering where everything will be placed, I can roughly map out my tonal range too. Looking forward to painting this commission! Using @mhoilpaints Raw Umber and Transparent Red Oxide on @winsorandnewton 120x80cm canvas. #portrait #portraitpainting #commission #commissionedportrait #art #artistofinstagram #grisaille #underpainting #portraiture #painting
Painted this little chappy enjoying the waves a couple of weeks ago. Oil on canvas, 30x25cm #figurative #figurativeart #painting #oilpainting #workingartist #artistsoninstagram #beach #waves #oil #art
One of the palette knife landscapes I painted on camera for @arttutor. Takes me back to when I painted exclusively in palette knife at university, harking back to that tradition of working with a knife in Wales. Was fun to be painting in this way again - but by-golly it uses a lot of paint!!! Sunset, Oil on canvas, 40x50cm #landscape #landscapepainting #oil #oilpainting #sunset #sunsetpainting #paletteknife #paletteknifelandscape #arttutor #teaching #filming
Great to be in the filming studio with @arttutor filming a new series of painting classes. This time it’s Palette Knife Landscapes! Here’s my painting table and palette all laid out. Stay tuned for what I get up to! #arttutor #filming #teaching #painting #palette #oil #paletteknife #workingartist
Just looking through all the landscape paintings I’ve done this year as demonstrations. Deciding which ones I’ll frame and put onto the gallery wall, which ones will get mounted and popped into the browser and which ones will get filed into the bin! #workingartist #artistproblems #paintings #landscapes #oil #acrylic #studio #artistsoninstagram #bucksartist
Really enjoying painting these little figurative oil paintings. Here’s another I did for the Winslow & District Art Society as a demonstration. However, I need a title - any suggestions? I’m also delighted to say that I’ve been made an Honorary Member of this Society and looking forward to working with them a lot more next year. Oil on canvas, 25x25cm #oil #oilpainting #allaprima #figures #painting #art #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #figurativeart #figurativepainting