Peter has been painting and sketching and playing with food since he was a mere lad. It’s recorded that his mother admired his early artwork, using a gouache of spinach and Farrax, with which he decorated the walls of his nursery.

He won many awards and prizes in his school years which allowed him, in Billy Bunter fashion, to purchase food from the local food stalls. He then painted signs which he sold to the food shops.

At 14, he was offered a job as junior artist by Australia’s leading advertising agency.   His main task was to get the senior artist’s lunch.   In a short time he set up as a freelance artist as well as a food consultant.   For instance he worked for the Federal Government in both capacities.   He also painted and drew for most of Australia’s top companies as well as many prestigious international companies which included General Motors, Ford, Shell, Mobil, Boeing, Kraft and others.   Shell organised Peter to travel to, and produce art of, their facilities around the world.

Peter wrote, produced, directed and presented many hundreds of TV shows for the ABC.   For 17 years he was also the on-air figure for the Australian Dairy Corporation, the Australian Egg Boards, Kraft Cheese and others.   He has been a guest on the top Australian TV shows and written and illustrated for all of Australia’s top magazines including Vogue.   Peter has written and illustrated 35 books including an Encyclopaedia of Food and, at present, is completing an Encyclopaedia of Fish.

He has exhibited as a sole artist and with various groups.   At present he is preparing an exhibition for showing in London and the USA.   For many years he owned his own Soho Galleries on the Bellarine Peninsula.   His work is in many private collections and galleries.   The National Immigration Museum has collected some of his works and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra requested a self-portrait of Peter for one of its exhibitions in 2004.   He has produced major paintings for the Federal Government, one of which was produced on a record cover of ‘How to Learn English’.

Peter lived with an Aboriginal tribe in the Far North of Australia where he painted many of the Dreamtime stories told to him by the tribal elder, Roy Big Foot.   A book of these myths and legends is being published.   Peter has been asked to revisit the North and North West to paint and write another book as well as produce a TV documentary on the adventure.