PETER THWAITES .......................................... Brief Biography |
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Peter
Thwaites is a Land Agent /Chartered Surveyor
by profession. For most of his life he has lived and worked in Cornwall
painting and drawing the natural world around him from an early age. His watercolour paintings have been exhibited at the Royal Institution
in Cornwall and are in many private collections.
His many watercolour sketchbooks of fungi and wild flowers have been built
up over the years. In 2005 he was commissioned by the British Mycological Society to illustrate their Pocket Guide to Common Fungi. 
This was followed by a Common Fungi Poster in 2008 with some 63 species and a reprint of the Pocket Guide in 2011.
Teenage years spent sailing on the Carrick Roads in Cornwall have given
him an appreciation of the sea and tidal estuaries and in the mid-1990s
happy times were spent sailing his Drascombe on the Fowey River in Cornwall. His painting has taken him all over the British Isles, from Cornwall to Scotland and the Outer Isles.
Peter is a skilled and enthusiastic watercolour artist but also enjoys the freedom of acrylic and, occasionally, oils for larger canvasses.
He has exhibited at the Royal Waterclour Society's Exhibition: 21st Century Watercolour at the Bankside Gallery in London and at the international ArtExpo in Atlanta, Georgia.
For the past five years he has been a regular exhibitor at the Five Arrows Gallery at Exbury Gardens in Hampshire with the 4 Seasons Art Group in the spring and with his own exhibitions of 'Wild Autumn Art' each October.
The advances in digital printing technology have enabled the publication
of a
range of prints from his many paintings. Prints and cards are always available to order from the website, at the Exbury exhibitions and by phone or email.