Diary Highlights (Full Diary...)
30th June - 4th July 2022 - Alpha Painting Holiday in The Wye Valley
Paint the beautiful Wye Valley. We will paint the River Wye with a selection of Symonds Yat, Ross-on-Wye, Tintern Abbey or Old Station and the surrounding countryside including castles, old ruins, bridges, cottages and villages.
14th - 17th July 2022: Patchings Art Festival
After a two year forced break, the magnificent Patchings Art Festival will be returning in full force this summer.
Peter will once again be exhibiting/demonstrating at what is universally considered to be one of the biggest and friendliest art festivals in the UK. Each year the show goes from strength to strength and this year will be no exception, guaranteeing arty-action to suit all persuasions, featuring artists and suppliers from all corners of the country.
For full details of the show and opening times as they are published, check out the art centre's main website here.
Once again, Peter will be exhibiting and demonstrating at the second annual Northern Art Fair, to be held in the beautiful village of St Johns Chapel, Weardale, on the 30th & 31st of July 2022.
The event will be held in the town hall on Saturday 30th, 10am – 5pm, and Sunday 31st, 10am – 4pm.
The organisers aim is to promote the quality and diversity of contemporary art in the north that is accessible and affordable to all.
For full details of the show, who is exhibiting and how to get there, check out the event website here.
13th - 14th August 2022: Art In The Pen, Skipton
Peter will be exhibiting/demonstrating at Art in the Pen, a well established and highly regarded art fair that runs each year in Skipton Auction Mart.
The show started out in 2005 as a relatively small number of artists transforming cattle pens into galleries to sell their original work. Today, Art in the Pen has flourished into a sprawling event, with an abundance of creativity and craftsmanship at every turn.
The continued success of Art in the Pen is partly down to its relaxed and friendly environment. The events are a great way for visitors to strike up conversations with our artists and meet other art and craft enthusiasts. Whether you’re a collector or buying for the first time, Art in the Pen provides a wonderful opportunity to discover new, emerging and established talent.
For full details of the show and opening times, check out its website here.
14/05/22: WATERCOLOUR FOR BEGINNERS (Parts 1-15) - REMASTERED!
Available on DVD and Video on Demand, all fifteen titles have undergone extensive improvement work and had a whole host of brand new content and features added.
All DVD titles include include a gallery of work and full biography.
DVD Price: £12 each + Carriage
All titles are also available ON DEMAND
For full details, video trailers and secure online ordering Click Here
20/10/21: Now Showing on Peter's YouTube Channel
Available 3rd November:
Grand Circle South America is a six-part series available to view exclusively on my YouTube Channel. Part 1: Bristol to Cape Verde is now available, with the five subsequent episodes scheduled to be posted one week apart.
In 2019, I was commissioned to run painting classes on the cruise ship Marco Polo during its epic, 70-day circumnavigation of South America. In this series of six episodes, I will be sharing highlights from this magnificent voyage, punctuated by several timelapse demonstrations of watercolour paintings directly related to the trip.
Join me in part one, as we sail from Bristol to Mindelo in the Cape Verde Islands, stopping off at Lisbon, Madeira and the Canary Islands along the way.
Featuring exclusive footage from the trip and an original soundtrack, this episode also includes a painting of a fishing boat on the beach at Mindelo (the full version of which is available to subscribers of my Online Tuition Service.
The series will be covering the whole of the trip, with highlights including penguins on the Falkland Islands, spectacular views of Rio de Janeiro and the magnificent mountains seen from the Chilean Fjords. Visits to Ecuador and Peru provide the perfect build-up to a transit of The Panama Canal, before heading homeward across the Atlantic, via the Azores.
I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed putting it together!
20/09/21: 2022 CALENDAR
This high-quality, ring-bound, A4-sized calendar (opens out to A3) features a collection of work painted by Peter during the last 12 months, but with a couple of older classics thrown in for good measure.
Featuring the high tarns and rivers of Cumbria’s Lakeland to the wild mountain pass of Glen Etive in the Scottish Highlands. From the uncompromising coastline of Dumfries and Galloway to a gentle silhouette of Dunstanburgh Castle on the North-East coast of Northumberland. Weathered rocks and pot-holes of the Yorkshire Dales, an old barn and caravan, and a Norwegian snowscene, complete this eclectic collection of landscapes.
For more details Click Here
14/11/20: New DVD - THE THREE PEAKS
Join Peter Woolley, as he explores the Three Peaks area of the Yorkshire Dales.
It’s an area of vast open moorland, riddled with pot holes and limestone pavements, and featuring three of Yorkshire's highest hills... and a famous railway viaduct.
In this celebration of one of the most visually exciting and inspiring areas in the Dales. Peter paints Ribblehead Viaduct at Sunset, tackles the Limestone Pavement below Ingleborough, and creates a dramatic sky over the iconic Pen-y-Ghent. before completing the collection with a loose line and wash painting of Hull Pot - the biggest natural hole in England
Special Features include a gallery of work and full biography.
Length: 90 Mins approx
Colour: PAL / NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Region: 0
DVD Price: £12 each + Carriage
This title is also available ON DEMAND
For full details, video trailers and secure online ordering Click Here
03/08/20: Peter's Travel Blog - Relaunched
Previously known as ‘Peter’s Cruise Blog’, it will now encompass all his travels. As always, he will be keeping a record of all his future trips while running painting workshops on cruise ships (even though, with things as they are at the moment in the industry, it's a little uncertain as to when this will happen again – in the meantime, there are vast archives of his previous cruising adventures for those wishing to dig around).
Peter also plans to write up his adventures in his trusty campervan, and to keep a record of his major walks/sketching trips out and about, featuring route maps and downloadable gpx files (for use on Google Maps and Navigation apps.
13/04/20: Original Sketches Gallery Updated
Peter's Online Gallery is currently undergoing a major refurbishment!
As part of this refurbishment, we are pleased to announce that updates to the PENCIL SKETCHES GALLERY have now been completed, with lots of new sketches available to purchase, and featuring additional pages designed to provide extra information and insight into each piece of work on display.
Original sketches are only £25 each, plus carriage, so start browsing today...
To view the full gallery Click Here
22/11/19: New DVD - Painting IRELAND
Join Peter Woolley, as he travels across Ireland from East to West in search of subjects to paint and draw.
His journey begins in the glacial valley of Glendalough before pausing by ancient ruins in Wicklow Gap. In County Tipperary, The Rock of Cashel makes a great line and wash subject, followed by a brief sketch of Glanworth Bridge, one of the oldest and narrowest public stone bridges still in use in Europe.
In Killarney, he enjoys the delights of Muckross Abbey and Torc Waterfall before hiking up the spectacular Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park to earn his pint of Guiness. A line and pencil drawing of Kerry Cliffs and a memorable visit to Blarney Castle concludes this epic sketching trip.
Special Features include a gallery of work and full biography.
Length: 104 Mins approx
Colour: PAL / NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Region: 0
DVD Price: £12 each + Carriage
This title is also available ON DEMAND
For full details, video trailers and secure online ordering Click Here
19/11/19: WORKSOP SOCIETY OF ARTISTS DEMONSTRATION
15/08/19: 'Hills & Mountains' Book Paintings Now Reduced
To order, go to the Hills & Mountains Gallery and bag yourself a bargain today.
21/07/19: New Projects Collection DVD - The Rooftops of Lisbon
Projects feature Location Information to help you get to really know the subject and two full working demonstrations; the first one, a Preliminary Pencil Sketch, is followed by a demonstration of the subject, painted up in watercolour. Bonus material will include a brief study of a specific technique associated with the subject.
Join Peter as he explores the views across the historical capital city of Portugal, Lisbon. After demonstrating a couple of simple, but effective, loosening-up techniques, he draws out the scene in pencil before finishing with a line and wash painting.
Bonus Demonstration: Rural farm buildings rise from the mist in Misty Marrick.
Length: 63 Mins approx
Colour: PAL / NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Region: 0
DVD Price: £12 each + Carriage
This title is also available ON DEMAND
For full details, video trailers and secure online ordering Click Here