Peter Upton

'Al Hamaama' - Head study Oil on board, signed Image size: 14 x 18 inches (36 x 46 cms) Price £2,500   'Haboub' - Head Study Oil on board, signed Image size: 14 x 18 inches (36 x 46 cms) SOLD   'I'm off' - two mares Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 12 x 16 inches (30 x 40 cms) SOLD   'Moving on' - horses and camels Watercolour, signed Image size: 21 x 32 inches (53 x 81 cms) SOLD   'Piaffe' - Grey Stallion Oil on canvas, signed 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (39.5 x 39.5 cms) SOLD   'Russallka' - Head study Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 14 x 18 inches (36 x 46 cms) SOLD   'Sasha'- a saluki Oil on board, signed Image size: 10 x 11 inches (26 x 28 cms) SOLD   'Show off' - trotting foal Oil on board, signed Image size: 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30 cms) SOLD   'Three Generations' - 3 mares Oil on board, signed 24 x 36 inches (61 x 92 cms) SOLD   A Chestnut Colt Oil on board 16 x 20 inches (41 x 51 cms) Price £2,500   A Young Stallion Oil on Canvas Signed and dated 07 Image size: 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61cm) Framed size: 22 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (58 x 73cm) SOLD   Argent Fire - a white stallion Oil on board, signed Image Size: 20 x 26 inches (51 x 66 cms) Price £4,000   Asfar - a white stallion Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cms) SOLD   Bay mare and foal Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cms) Price £3,500   Brood mares at Royal Jordanian Stud Watercolour, signed 17 x 24 inches (43 x 61 cms) SOLD   Coffee - a desert halt Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102 cms) SOLD   Dahman Stallion Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 14 x 18 inches (36 x 46 cms) Price £2,500   Donkey work - Egypt Watercolour, signed Image size: 12 X 17 inches (30 x 43 cms) SOLD   Foal at rest Oil on board, signed Image size: 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30 cms) SOLD   Grey mare and foal Oil on board, signed Image size: 12 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cms) SOLD   Horses at Petra Watercolour, Signed 14 x 19 inches (35.5 x 48 cm) Price £2,000   Lone Rider in a Wadi Oil on board, signed Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cms) Price £4,500   Mares in a Wadi Watercolour, signed 19 x 28 inches (48 x 71 cms) Price £1,700   Restless - five mares Oil on board, signed Image size: 20 24 inches (51 X 61 cms) SOLD   Showing the Flag, Trotting Chestnut Stallion Oil on Canvas Signed and dated '08 Image size: 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61cm) Framed size: 22 x 28 3/4 inches (58 x 73cm) £4,000   Spahi and Barb Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cms) Price £5,000   The Introduction - mare and falcon Oil on board, signed Image size: 20 x 24 inches (51 x 61 cms) SOLD   The Sheykh and his war mare Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cms) SOLD   The War Prize, after a Ghazu Oil on board, signed Image size: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 92 cms) Price £7,000   The Watcher Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cms) Price £4,000   Three Sakers Oil on board, signed Image size: 10 x 18 inches (26 x 46 cms) SOLD   Tribe on the move, Wadi Dana Watercolour and bodycolour, signed Image size: 19 x 15 inches (48 x 38 cm) Price: £2,000   Two foals Oil on board, signed Image size: 12 x 9 inches ( 30 x 23 cms) SOLD   Waiting in Wadi Musa Watercolour, signed Image size: 14 x 19 inches (36 x 49 cms) SOLD

Biography

Peter and his twin brother Roger come from an artistic family - their mother was a painter and their uncle Charles W Cain, was a celebrated dry-point etcher called the 'Etcher of the East'.

Peter Upton has a worldwide reputation as an artist and author, specialising in the Arab Horse, on which he lectures around the world. He is also an International Judge of Arab Horses - twice President of the Arab Horse Society of Britain, as well as Patron of the New Zealand Arab Horse Society. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East and camped in tents with the Bedouins. He carries out extensive sketches whilst travelling, using biro (because it doesn't need sharpening!) on bankpaper, and then he paints the finished piece in his studio.

He has held exhibitions in London, Cirencester, the United States, Sweden and, as co-exhibitor with his nephew Mark, in Jeddah. This last exhibition took place during Ramadan with the private view taking place at midnight. He has been invited to exhibit at many shows including 'A Brush with Nature' for the Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridge. His paintings are much sought-after and can be found in private collections, including royal collections, throughout the world. He is also represented in the international collection, 'Nature in Art'.

He has written numerous articles for international magazines, and is a founder member of the Arabian Horse Historical Association. Peter has had five books published, the first in 1980 'Desert Heritage, An Artist's Collection of Blunt's Desert Horses', and also 'The Classic Arab Horse', now translated into five languages, and 'The Arab Horse, A Complete Record of the Arab Horse Imported into Britain from the Desert of Arabia from the 1830s'. In 1997, the twins published a joint book of their poems, 'Rhyme Intrinseca' and in 1998 Peter's 'Drinkers of the Wind, The Arabian Horse – History, Mystery and Magic' was published by Thames & Hudson. A new edition of ‘The Arab Horse’ was published in 2005, followed by a new book entitled ‘Out of the Desert’ in 2006.

Over the last few years he has been exhibiting paintings at the Mathaf Gallery annual contemporary exhibitions.