Peter Hicks

"Approaching Storm, Swaledale" - Acrylic (125 x 96 cm)

Peter Hicks has pursued a career as a professional painter for many years. He was head of a large Art Department at Queen Elizabeth College Darlington, lectured extra-mural for Durham and Hull Universities and compiled a publication on the Life and Work of the well known artist, Lilian Colbourn.

"I work out of need and toward some kind of fulfilment. My perception is caught between figuration and abstraction, in a world where hints, hopes and promises abound. It aims at a coming together and promises an amalgam of many things; the known or familiar, an aspiration, a shared moment or a memory.

My stimulus remains the environment, particularly from places where thoughts intervene, etching their own patina upon familiar objects. The aim is to be a clear transparency to the ideas that come to thought.

I subscribe to the belief that, though the forms of art change, the highest aspirations remain."

Peter has exhibited widely throughout the UK and abroad, including the Myles Meeham Gallery Darlington, the Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth, and Messum's, Cork Street, London.

"Ravine, Cleveland" - Acrylic (71 x 60 cm)