Peter Doig

Peter Doig is, for my money, one of the most quietly compelling painters working today. Born in Edinburgh in 1959, he's lived a genuinely nomadic life across England, Scotland, Canada, Trinidad, the USA and Germany, and you can feel that drift in his dreamlike, half-remembered landscapes. Winning the John Moores Painting Prize in 1993 marked him as a serious figure, and his long Trinidad chapter from 2002 to 2021 clearly soaked into his palette before he returned to London. I love that he revived painting as a vehicle for mood and memory at a moment when many declared the form exhausted; his canvases reward slow, patient looking.

Name (English)

Peter Doig

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・ドイグ

Reading

ぴーたー・どいぐ

Born

April 17, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

Origin

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Occupation

painter / draftsperson / etcher

University

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Awards & achievements

• 1993 John Moores Painting Prize

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B0

Tags

• painter
• draftsperson
• etcher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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