Peter Wileman British, Contemporary

Highly acclaimed British abstract artist Peter Wileman is one of the UK’s leading contemporary landscape artists today. Known for his dazzling abstracted oil landscapes, Wileman’s style is bold and vigorous, both in the use of colour and handling of paint, as he explores the effect of light on his subject. Seeking atmosphere through light and colour, he works in varying degrees of abstraction. 

Interested in painting from a young age, upon leaving school he went straight into his first job at Hallmark Cards, a card company, where his innate artistic talent was immediately recognised. Here Peter spent five years studying lettering and design, his first artistic training - which gave him a solid grounding in colour awareness and formal structure. Wileman later became the art editor on a number of magazines. Looking for an opportunity to develop his own artwork, Peter left his budding design career to become a freelance artist; a decision from which he has never looked back.

Working exclusively in oils, the medium most adaptable to changes of light and mood, he evokes atmosphere through light and colour through varying degrees of abstraction. The foregrounds are complex, but not distracting from the subject within his work. Over the last two decades Wileman has exhibited regularly at a number of prestigious art venues including the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the New England Art Club and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters of which he is an associate member. Wileman has built a distinguished reputation as one of the finest landscape artists practising in the UK today.