Peter Austin, Artist, Dorset; Portland, Chesil Beach and coastal themes

Some of Peter's work can be viewed here:

https://www.axisweb.org/p/peteraustin/

More here:

https://www.bucksartweeks.org.uk/galleries/2020/peter-austin


Peter was brought up in Dorset and studied painting at Bournemouth College of Art.

Peter would have been showing new work at Bucks Art Weeks (now cancelled), works "made since early 2019 and mostly back to where I started with coastal themes to do with Dorset (Portland especially of course), the Caribbean and Cornwall".

"Peter Austin is originally from Dorset and studied painting at Bournemouth College of Art. In 1962, following the award of a Travelling Scholarship, he went to live in Sweden where he was able to develop and exhibit his work. In 1966 he began a forty year career in art education, teaching at a senior level and later working as a schools inspector and as a senior examiner for art and design.

Peter Austin's early paintings were mostly responses to familiar and much-loved places such as Portland, the Purbecks and Chesil Beach. Since then his subject matter has widened but continues to be about land, sea, coast and sky.

Peter Austin's paintings are sometimes described as "abstract" but his paintings are always the result of a strong visual and personal experience - work that is derived from the looking and feeling that precedes the making".