Biography
Peter Wilson (b. Glasgow, Scotland, UK 1940) attended Glasgow School of Art (1960–64) and then was a Byam Shaw Jubilee Scholar (1964–65). In the latter year Wilson was a John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, prizewinner. During 1979–81 he had an East Midlands Arts Award, then in 1982, when he was artist-in-residence at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Wilson won an Arts Council Major Award. A Scottish Print Open Purchase Prize was awarded in 1987. Wilson has had a busy one-man exhibiting career, his later shows including the Usher Gallery, Lincoln, and Waterford Arts Centre, Ireland (1987); Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (1988); Leicester Museum and Art Gallery (1990); and in 1991 a show at The Minories in Colchester and at The Lamont Gallery entitled Under the Surface. Originally Wilson was an abstract painter, but he later favoured narrative pictures; a feeling for intense colour remained.
