Pete Hoida was born in Birkenhead

Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...

 in 1944. He ceased writing circa 1985, after which he dedicated his time wholly to painting.

Poetry

He would be better represented by these later volumes: final publication “Literary Breakfast”, “The Correct Demanded Direction”, and “Stumble”, which were only printed in very small editions of 300 and received scant attention. His more noticed, very early published “Lips”, would not represent him at his best. Also published: “Selected Poems of Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars

Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...

” (Translation).

Painting

He studied painting at Hammersmith College of Art and Building (1969–1972) and Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute...

 School of Art, London University (1972–1974), painting thereafter from Stroud

Stroud

Stroud a town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England.Stroud may also refer to:*Stroud, New South Wales, Australia*Stroud, Ontario, Canada*Stroud , Gloucestershire, UK*Stroud...

, Gloucestershire.

“Marrying an abstract distinctly English landscape sensibility that draws on Patrick Heron

Patrick Heron

Patrick Heron , was an English painter, writer and designer, based in St. Ives, Cornwall.- Early life :...

 and Ivon Hitchens

Ivon Hitchens

Ivon Hitchens was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s. He became part of the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. His house was bombed in 1940 during World War II, at which point he moved to a caravan on a patch of woodland near Petworth in...

 with the fierce transatlantic colourism of Hans Hoffman and Nicolas de Stael

Nicolas de Staël

Nicolas de Staël was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting...

's velvety tachism, Hoida arrives at an intensely personal synthesis, resonating with landscape feeling.” Or as Alan Gouk puts it “his colour is not just thought up in the studio as part of some "non-referential" building kit” or AG again, as above “….persist, nonetheless, in trying to render fulgent the fuliginous, to make clear things that are tacit and cloudy, that have no name until painted…..”

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include: Axiom, Cheltenham

Cheltenham

Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...

, 1986; Guildhall Arts Centre, Gloucester, 1987 & 1992; The Living Room, London, 1994; Museum & Art Gallery, Cheltenham, 1995; 7 Goodge Place, London, 1997; deli Art, London, 2000; Ashcroft Modern Art, Cirencester

Cirencester

Cirencester is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural...

, 2006; Subscription Rooms, Stroud, 2007; SE1 Gallery, London, 2008.

Selected group exhibitions include: Camden Arts Centre

Camden Arts Centre

Camden Arts Centre is a contemporary visual art gallery, dedicated to engaging living artists from across the world. Positioning the artist at the centre of the programme, Camden Arts Centre strives to involve the public in the ideas and work of today's artists.The exhibition and education...

, London; Spacex, Exeter; Pelter/Sands, Bristol; The Grundy Art Gallery

Grundy Art Gallery

The Grundy is an art gallery located in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It's eclectic programme consists of regional historic to recent contemporary art exhibitions. Opened in 1911, it is owned and operated by Blackpool Council....

, Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

; The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Boundary Gallery, London; Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery; Gwl Gelf, Harlech Art Biennale; The Schoolhouse Gallery, Bath; Sun & Doves, London; Royal West of England Academy

Royal West of England Academy

The Royal West of England Academy is an art gallery where Queens Road meets Whiteladies Road, in Bristol, England.- History :The Academy was the first art gallery in Bristol. Its foundation was financed by a bequest of £2000 in the will of Ellen Sharples in 1849, and a group of artists in...

, Bristol; Dean Clough

Dean Clough

Dean Clough in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England is a group of large factory buildings built in the 1840s–60s for Crossley's Carpets, becoming one of the world's largest carpet factories...

, Halifax.

External links

• http://www.petehoida.co.uk