Peter Brown is a Bath-based artist, an all-weather painter of street scenes and city landscapes. Known for working directly from his subject, he is more affectionately known as 'Pete the Street'. Pete was born in Reading in 1967. Painting from an early age, he studied Art at Bath College of Higher Education and Manchester Polytechnic. In 1995 he returned to Bath where he started his practice of working from life in the city. Since then he has had 7 solo exhibitions at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, and a total of 12 in London with Messum's and WH Patterson, as well as featuring in numerous group exhibitions. Obsessed with city life, Pete has painted in London, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto, Udaipur and Varanasi in India. In 2006, he became the first artist in residence at the Savoy Hotel, London and in 2008 was awarded the Prince of Wales award for portrait drawing. He is a member of the New English Art Club, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Pastel Society and an honorary member of the Royal Society of British Artists. With his determination to work only directly from the subject, Peter is widely acclaimed as one of the best plein-air painters practising in this country today and his sell-out exhibitions are a tribute to that. Pete's work can be found in numerous private and public collections around the world. He is represented internationally by Messum's, London. He lives in Bath with his wife Lisa and five children Ollie, Toby, Hattie, Ella and Ned.