Peter Goodfellow

Peter Goodfellow was born in the North East of England and studied illustration at the Central School of Art and Design, London. His professional career as a freelance illustrator has been mainly in the field of book jacket, advertising and packaging design. With agents in New York, Hamburg and London he established himself as one of Europe’s leading illustrator. Since moving to Scotland Peter has become one of the best known landscape painters working in Scotland today.

“Perhaps it is because of my earlier incarnation as an illustrator, where I was constantly asked to fulfil tight briefs usually employing photo realistic techniques my painting which has evolved over the last 17 years has taken the opposite direction. I want the paint surface to have a life of its own. I want it to be “alive”. To this end I initially apply large brush strokes in an almost random abstract manner taking the paint off over and over again and then reapplying it until I am happy with the mark and I begin to see the beginnings of a place I know. The subsequent brush and palette knife marks will then take me to this place - I have been there. I remember it, the emotion, the weather, the underlying geology, the power of the land – never achieved in a photograph. My memory is my reference.”

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2005 - 2007 Kranenburg & Fowler, Oban

Duff House, Banff

2004 - 2007 Tracey McNee Gallery, Glasgow

Duncan Miller, London

2000 - 2007 Dublin Art Fair

1998 - 2007 The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh

1997 - 2007 The Lost Gallery, Aberdeenshire

Milton of Crathes, Aberdeenshire

1996 – 2007 Glasgow Art Fair

1995 – 2007 London Contemporary Art Fair, Islington

COMMISSIONS

Commissioned by the Hon Phillip Astor to design and paint a series of art works (24) and 3 stained glass windows for a private chapel in Migvie, Aberdeenshire

PUBLIC AND COMMERCIAL COLLECTIONS

Victoria and Albert Museum Saatchi and Saatchi

Whitbread Brewer Penguin Books

Baxter’s Foods William Collins and Sons

Scandutch, Denmark ICL Computers

National Savings British Telecom

Quantas Airlines Sacania Motors, Sweden

Grisewood & Dempsey Publishers Bergsoe, 3, Denmark

Peter Justenson, Denmark Cidel Bank, Luxembourg

Integrated Engineering Services, Aberdeen BBC, England

Duncan & Todd, Aberdeen CBC, Copenhagen