Pete the Street

This academic year we had the pleasure of welcoming Peter Brown NEAC, aka ‘Pete the Street’ back to the College for a second residency. Peter first visited us in 2019 as our ‘225 Artist in Residence’.

Peter is often associated with Bath, the city that inspired him to revisit figurative painting after his explorations into abstraction which took him from art school in Manchester in the late eighties up until 1992.  While he has lived and painted for most of his adult life in Bath, his work takes him to countless locations across the UK and around the world.

London is a frequent subject for his artworks. However, discovering new places has become more and more important, and his painting has taken him further afield to India, Vietnam, Havana, New York, across Europe and, of course, to Stonyhurst!

Working mostly in oil, but sometimes charcoal, and very occasionally pastel, he has received numerous awards and is a member of several national art societies, most notably the NEAC (New English Art Club) where he has recently completed a five-year term as the society’s President.

Peter paints for one-man shows each year – either in London or Bath – and has been exhibiting with Messums London since 2004.  He has recently worked on a major exhibition of New York paintings for a debut show in Manhattan with Messums.

During his residency at Stonyhurst, Peter has faced all forms of the Lancashire weather in order to paint our beautiful buildings and estate. When the weather became too much, Peter ventured into the warmth of the College and captured key moments of the day-to-day life here at the school! The paintings will be exhibited at this year’s Great Academies before they find the perfect spots in their new homes.

You can own one of these unique pieces of Stonyhurst by contacting our Development Office at development@stonyhurst.ac.uk. **

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