This latest collection of my recent work contains a brief foray into childhood memories of comics and cowboy films followed by another slant on Welsh miners/miners’ wives against a background of churches. Also the occasional image of well known faces from the past: Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, James Dean. Then another change of direction onto cats, some known, some not. Funny how ideas develop and then fade away…where did Putin and Trump come from, for example? Strange how the mind works.
Peter Ross is a Welsh artist living in England and currently producing paintings about his childhood in South Wales in the 1950’s and 60’s.
Peter was born in Llanfrechfa, South Wales in 1941 and grew up in Newport. He now teaches life drawing to adults and exhibits his work in galleries in England and Wales. Since his time as an art student Peter has continued to paint for himself. He has always chosen themes which appealed to him at specific times such as conflict, journeys, faces and cultural/literary figures.