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Peter Goodfellow

PETER GOODFELLOW was born in Middlesbrough in 1950. He was educated at  Billingham North Primary then Bede Hall Grammar School. He studied art at Middlesbrough College of Art where he took a Foundation Course from  1967 to 1968 and a Degree Course at Central School of Art, London, from 1967 to 1971.

Peter’s professional career began as a freelance illustrator, mainly  in the field of book jacket, advertising and packaging design.  With agents in New York, Hamburg and London he established  himself as one of Europe’s leading illustrators.

He moved to Scotland in 1985 and in 1995 Peter switched  careers and established himself as one of the country’s best known landscape painters. He describes himself as an 'out and out colourist' and often paints the same subject repeatedly to distil colour and form.

Over the last few years a new direction has emerged featuring  portraits and the urban environment, and in some works a highly  political content is beginning to evolve. His recently published book, ‘Treason of the Scholars’, is a collection of his own paintings and selected essays by a number of academics, David Starkey, Roger Scruton and Duncan MacMillan. He laments the current state of the art establishment and the betrayal of art by curators and money-men.

Peter Goodfellow speaks about his London exhibition ‘Treason of the Scholars’.

Peter Goodfellow has exhibited widely and has work in numerous public and private collections.

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2014–15 Panter & Hall, London 
2014 Mall Gallery, London 
2013 National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
 2012 National Portrait Gallery, London 
2009 Geneva International Art Fair 
2005–07 Duff House, Banff 
2004–15 Duncan Miller, London 
2002–14 Aberdeen Art Gallery 
2002 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle 
2000–15 AAF, London 
2000–10 Glasgow International Art Fair 
2000 Osborne Gallery, London
2000  Lennox Gallery, London 

COMMISSIONS
2000–2 Commissioned by the Hon Philip Astor to design and  paint a series of art works (24) and three stained glass  windows for a private chapel in Migvie, Aberdeenshire

PUBLIC and COMMERCIAL COLLECTIONS
Victoria & Albert Museum
Saatchi &Saatchi 
Whitbread 
Penguin Books 
Baxter’s Foods 
William Collins &Sons 
Scandutch, Denmark
 ICL 
National Savings 
British Telecom 
Quantas Airline 
Scania Motors, Sweden 
Grisewood & Dempsey Publisher 
Bergsoe, 3, Denmark
 Peter Justenson, Denmark
 Cidel Bank, Luxembourg
 Integrated Engineering Services, Aberdeen 
BBC 
Duncan & Todd, Aberdeen 
CBC, Copenhagen