Peter Howson OBE (Born 1958)

Peter Howson was born in London in 1958; he moved to Scotland in his childhood and enrolled in the Glasgow School of Art in 1975.

In 1983, after graduating, Howson débuted his first public commission, a series of wall murals dedicated to the community in Feltham, London. From this point on, Peter has built a reputation as one of his generation’s most formidable figurative artists and has consistently exhibited both internationally and in the United Kingdom.

Howson was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum of London, to be the official war artist for the Bosnian/Hercegovina under Serbian and Croatian aggression in 1993. His work is collected throughout the world by many famous and faithful patrons. Throughout his career Peter Howson’s artworks have been celebrated by audiences and critics.