Peter Prendergast
Renowned for capturing not just the contours of land but its emotional resonance, Peter Prendergast stands among Wales’s most significant painters of the modern era
Widely acknowledged as an acute observer and superb draughtsman, Prendergast’s best work is characterised by a masterly use of form which is allied to a lavish and inventive manipulation of colour. The quality of his work is recognised both nationally and internationally and is celebrated by the public and critics as the foremost landscape painter in Wales. Fiercely proud of his roots, personal and artistic, the subject of Welsh identity, community, and the relationship of the people to the land, are recurring themes in his painting.
Prendergast’s work can be found in numerous collections including; Tate, National Museum of Wales and the British Museum London.
Peter Prendergast (1946 – 2007) was born in South Wales and it was the landscapes of the Wales which were to become indelibly associated with his distinguished artistic achievements. Although he would eventually settle in the north of the country, his landscape painting transcended specific geographical terrains as his interest and focus lay more with rendering the intrinsic essence and spirit of a place rather than in representation of a locality per se.
