Approved: 06.05.2016

Peter Austin

Artist

Approved: 06.05.2016

Born in 1942,I was brought up in Dorset and studied painting at Bournemouth College of Art. During 1962 to 1964, following the award of a Travelling Scholarship, I lived and painted in southern Sweden where I was also able to exhibit my work. 

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    Artist Statement

    Born in 1942,I was brought up in Dorset and studied painting at Bournemouth College of Art. During 1962 to 1964, following the award of a Travelling Scholarship, I lived and painted in southern Sweden where I was also able to exhibit my work. 

    In 1966 I began a forty year career in art education,teaching at a senior level , inspecting art in schools  and  examining  GCSE and A Level art. In 2006 I made the decision to return to full-time painting. 

    Having grown up on the Dorset coast,my early works were responses to familiar and much-loved places such as Portland and the Purbecks. Although these places are sometimes returned to for source material,much of my more recent work has been made in response to a wider range of subject matter,often prompted by memories and recollections of times,places and experiences.

    In addition to this widening of subject matter I have shifted towards work that now shows a greater concern for the problems associated with making a painting that will exist in its own right,as a thing in itself,as a piece of music might do,whilst still being a response to a visual and personal experience,something derived from the looking and feeling that precedes the making without being illustration.

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    See above + since 2006:

     

    County Museum,Aylesbury: Group Exhibition:  2007

    Bucks Open Studios  2007 to present

    Bedford Street Gallery,Woburn: Gallery artist: 2007 - 2012

    Carina Haslam Fine Art: Gallery artist: 2009 - 2012

    Paul Watts Arthouse Gallery,Bournemouth: Gallery artist 2012 - 2016

    Solo Exhibition Paul Watts Arthouse Gallery: 2013

    Russell Cotes Museum and Gallery,Bournemouth (Group Show): 2013

    Royal West of England Open: 2014

    Royal Academy Summer Show: 2014

    Menier Gallery,London (Group Show): 2016

    Claydon Gallery,Claydon House,Buckingham (Group Show): 2017

    Royal Academy Summer Show: 2017

    Royal West of England Open: 2017

    Claydon Gallery,Claydon House,Buckingham "A Sense of Place" (Group Show) 2018

    Royal West of England Open 2018

    Claydon Gallery Summer Exhibition 2018

    Claydon Gallery Spring Exhibition 2019

    South West Academy of Fine Art Open 2021

    St Barbe Museum & Gallery Lymington Open Exhibition 2022

    Longlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022