Art 4 Petes Sake
After graduating in Animation, I realised quickly i didn't want a life orientated around a computer so i decided to start painting.
I knew if my art and expression was to grow i needed to be challeged and grow as a person. So moving from Scotland, I found myself living in a tent in the mountains of south Spain. Eventually I would move north to Barcelona where i started my art career with a gallery in the city.
Self taught, my work is bold and colourful, with poetry or words normally finding their way into pieces.
With works collected globally, I know find myself living a quiter life and painting in from a small village in the countryside of central Portugal with my dog, Buddy Barka.
I immediately fell in love with painting when I realised how instant the feedback was and how I could dramatically change my emotions and headspace with colour. It has the power to move me the same way a walk in nature or a good song can. I favour the flexibility of the acrylic medium for spontaneity. I never know what I will create when I start painting or where I’m heading in life for that matter, but painting has become a way of taking some of the unknown and manifesting it into something tangible.
I was told when i was young if you find something that makes you smile in life, hold onto it.
Painting makes me smile.x
