Peter Lawson was born in Vernon, British Columbia in 1950. His family moved the same year to Vancouver Island and settled in Victoria, where Peter lived and worked for over 50 years before moving 30 miles north to Shawnigan Lake.

After graduating from the Kootenay School of Art in 1972, Peter spent a " brief " 30 year career with design studios and advertising agencies where he held a number of key positions in creative and client services. Always involved with the creative process, Peter's art today is a reflection of his strong design background and passion for the natural world.

 
His home studio, once a neglected cabin overlooking the lake, has been renovated to provide the ideal secluded environment to work at his methodical style of painting. Peter's technique of layering colours and often altering traditional perspective gives his paintings an unusual, almost " primitive " quality.

Inspired by van Gogh, Canadian artists Lawren Harris, Fred Coburn and E.J. Hughes, Peter's affection for nature is made obvious through his sensitive renderings and his control of colour, light and texture. Whether it's capturing a water-reflected coastal landscape or a towering interior forest, there's a " strength of peacefulness " to his original art that has attracted the interest of serious collectors in both Canada and the United States.