Peter Goodfellow

Peter was born in Middlesbrough in 1950. He completed a foundation course at Middlesbrough College of Art and then studied illustration at the Central School of Art and Design, London.

Peter's early career was as a freelance illustrator. He produced art work for many book jacket, advertising and packaging design projects and established himself as one of Europe's leading illustrators.

In 1985, Peter moved to Scotland. Since then he has become one of the best known painters of Scottish landscapes working in Scotland today. Peter's passion for Scottish landscapes is very evident. He sees himself to be an 'out and out colourist'. Inspired by art movements such as early Italian Renaissance and German Expressionism, his paintings capture the extraordinary beauty and power of the natural world. He often paints the same subject repeatedly to distil colour and form, but his paintings always communicate a strong sense of time, mood, and atmosphere.


'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.'