Peter Duxbury was born in 1933 and at the onset of the second world war was evacuated from the London Blitz to a school in North Wales. There he learned to love the wild colours of Snowdonia and at a very young age was lucky enough to be taught painting by an Austrian artist who taught the children to paint colours as they felt them to be, rather than copying them like a camera. His lessons have not been forgotten some seventy years on.
After a long career in printed textiles, he retired in 1998 and took up painting in both water colour and oils. Peter now has a house with a small studio on the cliffs on the Lizard in Cornwall where he paints the flowers and the ever changing light on the cliffs and the sea. Being disabled he gets to the cliffs on his beloved cross country wheel chair which carries him, his paints to some wild and beautiful places. He has shown at the Mall Galleries and various small exhibitions, but his main reason for painting is the love of it and trying to record the ever changing beauty of the place.