Peter Blood

I have been making art for close over 35 years, originally working in screen print, producing big, bold, colourful cartoons on perspex/plexiglass and later exploring themes related to religion, alchemy, astrology and nature. I have also worked throughout my life as a designer and illustrator, mainly in the field of environmental interpretation.

Although I have had no formal training in the fine arts, I collaborated for a period in the 1980s with the influential Scottish painter and art lecturer James Cumming RSA, to produce a series of screen prints based on his work. He was kind enough to comment at the time that he thought I had as good an eye for colour as anyone he ever knew.

In recent years, I have been experimenting with new media and giclee printing, producing monotype abstracts of varying degrees of complexity. My fascination is the interplay of colour and pattern and natural geometry - the kind of subtle forms that can be discovered in a landscape, the spread of wildflowers in a meadow, cloud formations in the sky or the imagined pictures seen in the flames of an open fire. I like to believe that working with these shapes and patterns exercises both hemispheres of my brain in equal measure. I am also interested in ...

Never stops. I use my art primarily as a tool for learning as there is no better medium with which to explore the things I see around me or the thought processes going on in my head.

My work has been exhibited at various times across Northern England and Southern Scotland. However, I have more generally been inclined to think of art as something I do rather than something I sell, and so the vast majority of my work has never been publicly shown. Many of the artworks on this website have not previously been offered for sale.