Born 1931
Peter Kelly was trained in Graphic Design at the West Ham School of Art and Technology and afterwards at the Central School of Art and Design in London.
He is married with two sons and lives in Stock, Essex.
He has pursued a career as a graphic designer, illustrator and painter and was elected an associate member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1980 and a full member in 1982. He was awarded the de Laszlo Medal in 1997. He was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 2007.

Peter's work is held in many public and private collections including
HSBC Bank
ING Barings
Charterhouse Securities
Laing Construction Company
Ford Motor Company
Higgs and Hill
Kennedys' Solicitors

Over the years he has held a number of Solo Exhibitions, repeatedly showing at John Adams Fine Art.
Other galleries include Waterman Fine Art, and Thompsons Galleries, Aldeburgh.

His work has been included in many Group Exhibitions including
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Discerning Eye Exhibition
Laing Competition
Hunting Group Exhibition
Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition
New English Art Club Exhibition
W H Patterson's Venice in Peril Exhibition
Society of Small Paintings Exhibitions
Royal Watercolour Society Open
Catto Gallery
Chappel Galleries, Essex
Langham Gallery
New Grafton Gallery
Bruton Street Gallery
Thompsons Galleries, Marylebone
Oakham Gallery NEAC Show September 2008
Pelham Fine Art, Little Waltham, From Doorways to Domes with Carl Laubin & Andrew Ingamells

Peter's work avoids touristic clichés and instead explores a world of empty rooms, mysterious corridors, atmospheric canals and ancient silent Churches. In his pictures he has an ongoing attraction with the quality of light; whether it be in dramatic skies over a London panorama, the fading light in the city of Bruges or a shaft of light in his signature interior scenes. Peter's works are invariably paintings of stillness - of moments suspended in time. In a world of increasing pace and rapidity they offer an escape into a world of calm and quiet reflection.