Scottish Artist Peter Stanway

Scottish Artist Peter Stanway
My journey into adulthood took me to the Glasgow School of Art where I studied Fine Art and Mixed Media. I was disillusioned there by the pervading apathy among the students. After leaving Art School, my life journey took me into a career as a photographer.  In the early 1980’s I set-up my first professional studio in Glasgow and quickly progressed from general photography to working mainly with the pop/rock culture in the UK and with the mainstream London-based music tabloids; Sounds, Melody Maker, Smash Hits and Noise, etc., often covering their main feature for the front and centre pages.

Altogether, I worked with over five-hundred different bands including some famous bands like; Spandau Ballet, U2, Simple Minds, Haircut 100, The Bluebells, Altered Images, Culture Club, Toyah, UB40, Marillion, The Clash, The Jam and many Indie and Punk bands like, The Fall, The Exploited, Blancmange, The Anti-Nowhere League, The Birthday Party, The Associates  to name a few. The Arts Council exhibited my work throughout the UK under the title of, ‘Scotland’s Top Rock and Pop Photographer’. – See more at: http://www.80srockandpopphotos.co.uk

I arrived in Cordoba, Spain in 1986 and spent over six years living and journeying extensively throughout southern Spain. I lived in Cordoba, Alhaurin el Grande, Torremolinos, La Carihuela, Antequera, Fuengirola, Marbella and Mijas. During that time I took up fine art again. I had exhibitions in La Victoria and in La Conquista in the province of Cordoba. *

I am fascinated by how the world around us is in a constant state of flux; by how it is forever changing, quickly or slowly, by nature and / or by man’s intervention. I am working from source images that no longer exist. They are transitory, captured for a moment in time, giving us a fleeting glimpse of something that we may otherwise miss.

I would love you to accompany me on this journey. Please use the poems on my art website that complement the images. The poems are portals to help you to climb inside the images to have a look around. Visit my art website: http://www.peterstanwayart.com/
*Read my full autobiography, Wee Boys from Glasgow Don’t Cry.
Available from www.peterstanwaybooks.com

“His new, bold and impressive paintings will be part of a special Christmas exhibition at ‘Collection Rimon’ inaugurating on Friday December 12th and running through to January 11th, 2015.

If you are looking for a unique gift for someone special this Christmas, take time to visit ‘Collection Rimon’.
Featured among the artists they host is Peter Stanway. No stranger to these shores. We featured an interview with Peter when he had a series of exhibitions last year. Peter has been working on the theme of ‘Journeys’ and as we journey with him we discover not only amazing colourful landscapes full of texture and composition but also insights into Peter’s spiritual journey that finds expression through his art.

I first made contact with the talented Scottish artist, Peter Stanway in the Tamisa Golf Hotel, where he was holding a well attended exhibition of his stimulating and unusual paintings. I found myself facing a tall, powerfully-built man, with longish grey hair, a friendly face with the warm expressive eyes of a man of integrity and confidence in his creative talents. My first impression was that he was straight from Hollywood movie versions of Rob Roy or Braveheart.

After being introduced Peter guided me through his exhibition, explaining some of the deeper meaning behind his artistic skills and I began to understand the creative mind of this gifted artist.
I know that it will not be too long before those admirers of contemporary art in Marbella the scene, will be aware of the name of Peter Stanway.” Dario Poli, author, artist and composer.

Walter van Teeffelen [waltervanteeffelen@ziggo.nl]