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"My paintings are a celebration of the visual world... light, sunlight, changes everything quickly, yet its transience gives permanence to my paintings."
Peter McNiven
Peter was born in 1952 and gained his Diploma in Art and Design in 1973. In 1986 he was awarded a 6-month French Government Scholarship to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, returning again in 2004. Peter is married with three children and is currently Director of Art at Cranleigh School in Surrey.
He has held one man exhibitions in Scotland, Lancashire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex and London. His exhibitions, among others, include the Contemporary Portrait Society, Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
He has also exhibited in British Drawing at the Hayward Gallery London and has been selected for the Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on five occasions, winning a prize in 1991.
More recently, he has exhibited in the Hunting Observer Competition at the Royal College of Art, the Singer Friedlander Watercolour Competition and the New English Art Club at the Mall Galleries.
He continues to exhibit in the UK and France. As well as private collections, he has work in the Queen's Collection Windsor (on drawings) and the Imperial War Museum (Falklands portraits).
Peter can also be referenced in "Who's Who in Art".