Biography:
born in 1961 in stroud, apprenticed in mechanical engineering and moved to Germany in 1990. Peter is now a freelance illustrator/artist using watercolours and acrylics to paint landscapes, townscapes and still lifes.

Peter has been on watercolour courses with Bernhard Vogel, John Lidzey, Norfolk and did a residency in 2006 in
Cill Rialaig, Kerry, Ireland.
In 2007 Peter began tutoring in sketching
and painting and running painting excursions.

Peter Monaghan
Painting
Artist in Residence
May 8th to May 13th

Does one really need reasons for painting? I think not, the act of painting is in itself enough. The discipline of solving the puzzle posed by proportions and perspectives is accompanied by the joy of being expressive; of pushing and pulling paint around until the painting almost takes on a life of it's own. Painting incorporates all our senses; it's good for body, mind and soul, as Constable said "painting is but another word for feeling".