Peter Brook

Peter Brook RBA (1927–2009) was an English artist best known for his landscape paintings. He was nicknamed "The Pennine Landscape Painter" for good reason. Life and career Peter Brook was born in Scholes, Holme Valley, West Yorkshire to farmer parents. He was educated at Goldsmith's College where he studied to become a teacher while he attended evening drawing classes and visited art galleries. He returned to West Yorkshire where he worked as a teacher, first at Rastrick and then Sowerby. He married his wife Molly in 1950. Brook painted rural landscapes, farmhouses and scenes from different facets of British life. In his early career he painted the houses, and mills, surrounding his home in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. He taught art at a local school and often told his students that "inspiration was all around"