About the Artist

After a long and rewarding career in advertising, design and illustration, Pete Underhill embraced fine art as a way to satisfy his ongoing desire to be creative.

Since leaving the high-pressure position of Studio Manager at a full-service agency in 2001, he has worked from his garden studio where he can hear the wind in the trees and the birds sing.

Pete’s work is underpinned by his belief that fidelity in drawing, truth and accuracy are fundamental to everything he does.

Equally at home with realist portraiture, figurative art and still life, and working primarily in oil paints, he continues to explore and develop his artistic practice with particular emphasis on colour harmony, edge control and compositional hierarchy.
With his enthusiasm for painting in a traditional style, he aims to imbue a sense of calm familiarity and stability within the viewer.

Pete used to think that, with his art, he had nothing to say, no banners to wave nor causes to champion, however, he now firmly believes that the simple celebration of making visual art is, in itself, cause enough.