Quirky,
humorous, fun with a dash of story.
What items are an essential part of
your creative space?
Good
lighting, lovely music, sharp pencils.
Do you have a favourite artistic medium?
Do you have a favourite artistic medium?
I love
to work with colour pencils, black ink
pens and gouache.
Name
three artists whose work inspires you.
Graeme Base, Salvador Dali, Andrei
Rublev.
The
Byzantine art era. This
period is renowned for inspirational masterpieces creating 'windows to
eternity' revealing
the mysteries of death and life.
Who or what inspired you to become an illustrator?
My
older brother inspired me to draw but Graeme Base and his book The Eleventh Hour infused my heart with the idea of one day illustrating a book .
Can you share a photo of your creative workspace or part of the area where you work most often? Talk us through it.
Can you share a photo of your creative workspace or part of the area where you work most often? Talk us through it.
My art space has plenty of light
by day and fluro light at night. I work mainly in colour pencil for
illustrations as you can see by the unorganised array of pencils packed in perspex! But here you can also see a commission
portrait in acrylic on canvas I was working on. My desk is actually an easel
which tips and lowers if needed. The ipad for music and
information, and a thin light box under my art pad, which I use for
transferring my original pencil drawing produced on copy paper, onto the art
paper.
What is your favourite part of
the illustration process?
What advice would you give to an
aspiring illustrator?
Draw anything you like as often
as you can .
As well as drawing illustrations and painting Peter has been
designing and creating fine jewellery for more than thirty years. He is a father of four and grateful have been married to his best
friend for 32 years. Peter enjoys sand sculpting, meeting people and having a good ol’ chat.
