Peter John Garrard, PPRBA, RP,RWA, NEAC

Born 1929, Peter Garrard is a past president of the Royal Society of British Artists, member of the New English Art Club, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Contemporary Portrait Society, Brother of the Art Workers Guild and an Honorary member of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.

He has organised several and been a judge on numerous international painting competitions and chairman of the judges of the spirit of London Painting Competition since its inception. He judged the Space Coast Arts Festival in bicentennial year. In 1981 he was invited by the Australian Guild of Realist Artists to take part in their seminars and to undertake a lecture/demonstration tour in and around Melbourne and Sydney. Occasional editor of The Artist, Creative Crafts and The Artists Trade Magazines. He has written numerous articles on painting and art history. He was author of the Artists Guide 1976, Learn to paint in oils, 1980.

He was awarded the DeLazlo Medal at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1976 and was a student at the Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing.