Peter Howson (b. 1958)

Peter Howson OBE is a Scottish figurative painter born in 1958. He was brought up in the streets of Glasgow, a background which inspires many of his paintings.

He was the British official war artist for the 1993 Bosnian civil war as commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, and was awarded an OBE in 2009.

His work is exhibited and collected worldwide and he is represented by the Flowers East  Gallery in London.