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Pete Gill
Pete Gill has taught for many years in art schools and colleges of Further Education and studied Fine Art at the Newport College of Art where he obtained a first class honours degree. His last teaching post prior to painting and delivering workshops full time was as a Learning Director at Derby College.
Pete Gill has exhibited extensively throughout Britain and has produced work to commision. Various paintings and prints are held in private collections. Pete has been and exhibitor for many years at the Wirksworth Art festival and Architecture trail. He as also exhibited at the Ropewalk Art Gallery (Barton-on-Humber), Crich contemporary Arts and Crafts, Melbourne contemporary Arts and Crafts and many others.
In 2003 Gill was awarded a commendation in the Derbyshire Open Competition, Buxton and had work accepted in 2004. Peter was a recent winner of the Derbyshire Open Print Trophy.
Peter's work sees recent themes of the foreshore, coastline and Derbyshire landscape, which enable a continuing examination of of the relationship between colour and structure and sees a gradual disolving between the representation and partial abstraction.
