Peter King, born in Glasgow in 1953, studied at Glasgow School of Art in the mid 1970s under the tutelage if David Donaldson RSA and Duncan Shanks RSA. He has painted and exhibited constantly while teaching full time in North Lanarkshire.

King exhibits regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Glasgow Institute and Thompson's Galleries London. Peter's work is represented in collections across the UK, Europe and North America. His paintings have featured in an Art Shop Article on contemporary British Landscape painting, Sunday Times Magazine April Edition 2000.

The light and colour of the weathered landscape of Kintyre, The Clyde Valley and the vast panorama of land and sky dominated by Tinto Hill and the Scottish Borders are a constant source of ideas and inspiration.

He has developed his paintings from a range of motifs, which he constantly returns to and reinterprets, focusing on aspects of the changing moods of light, weather and seasons. The source of his ideas is the changing visual effects of nature and the surrounding environment. Colour and the tactile qualities of paint are essential to his painting style. The marks, free paint and textured shapes become field, wood and sky.