Peter Spriggs was born in Cardiff. He was awarded a First Class Honours in BA Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University and MA(RCA) from the Painting School, Royal College of Art, London.
Presently, he is a lecturer in Fine Art at Carmarthen School of Art at Coleg Sir Gar.
He is a recipient of Arts Council of Wales Awards: Travel Award – Barcelona and a Creative Wales Award – Canada. A British Council International Programme Development Award facilitated a further trio to Canada as a Visiting Lecturer at Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
He has shown work in all Painting – Ysbryd/Spirit – Wales exhibitions throughout the 1990’s and all 56 Group Wales exhibitions since he became a member in 1997.
Recently he has worked with printmaking as well as painting and is one of Swansea Print Workshop’s Directors. An on-going project involves producing print-portraits of one hundred poets and writers in Wales.
A painting, or a print, is eventually completed and there was nothing easy about this.
It has layers of emotion and turmoil, time and labour, and eventually, resolution.