Divine Art

Peter’s a tall stocky man with quite a past behind him, but now he’s found a belief that suits him and through it, a way of expressing himself through his art.

“It involves my religion.” He says “Because I worship nature, I tend to take a lot of pictures of nature and of skies”

Peter sitting in his garden

Skies feature a lot in Peter’s works, with hands coming out of water to touch the sky, or hands coming from the sky to touch water.

There’s escapism too in Peter’s works with dream-like sequences or fairies. “I’ve always had a thing about fairies” says Peter “and about JM Barrie’s Peter Pan. I was born in Dumfries and JM Barrie studied there”

Peter’s now returned to college as a mature student to study art and “really enjoying it. It’s a great course.” And says he feels like a “snowball rolling down hill getting greater the more it rolls on.”

Peter doesn’t sell his work, but he enjoys it when it’s displayed and people appreciate it. “I’m not bothered if I’m rich.”  He says “Because at the end of the day, I’ve still got my Paganism.”