“Peter Stiles is, of course, a landscape painter. But what does this mean, ‘a landscape painter’? I would say that it doesn’t mean that he paints the landscape. This is not a paradox, for what it really means is this: that the things that he chooses to speak about human nature with are the things that he finds in the landscape.”
Christopher Bucklow
Peter Stiles
Education
Slade College of Fine Art, London
Group Shows
2026 |Capel Bethel, Troedrhiwsebon
2025 |Thelma Hubert Open, Honiton
2024 |BEEP, Swansea
2023 | A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield
2022 | StudioKIND
2020 | Wells Contemporary
Projects
2025 |Curated The Valley, Barnstaple Museum
2024 |Co-Director StudioKIND in Barnstaple
2017 – 2024 |Gallery Director, The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington
2015 |Formed the Art Writers Group with Jo Lanyon and Grace Davies
2003 – 2010 |Visual Arts Officer, Arts Council South West
Select Exhibitions
2026 |The Little Known Gallery, Barnsley
2026 |Greenhill, Moretonhampstead
2024 |Ruskin Mill, Stroud
2024 |Castle Bude
2022 |Studio Kind, Braunton
2021 |Castle Bude
2018 |Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth
2018 |The Plough Arts Centre
2016 and 2015 |Walcot Chapel, Bath
2014 |Greenhill Arts, Moretonhampstead
2014 |Site Festival, Stroud
2014 |Black Swan Arts, Frome
2011 |Plymouth Arts Centre
2011 |Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery
2010 |Station, Bristol
2010 |Torquay Museum
2009 |Museum of North Devon “Vivarium”
2009 |Coldharbour, Uffcolme “Vivarium”
2009 |Plough Arts Centre, Torrington
2008 |Gloucestershire University “Fisherman’s Rock”
2007 |Brewhouse, Taunton “liberte, fraternite, egalite”
2006 |British Academy, London “Science and Romanticism”
2006 |Exeter University
2005 |Praxis, Bideford “Charms against the Powerful”
2005 |Swimbridge (Artsculture)
2005 |Beaford Arts
2005 |Abbey Arts, London
2000 |Plymouth Arts Centre
1999 |Bartley Drew Gallery, London
1998 |Dartington Hall, Dartington