Peter Coombs
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Peter W G Coombs was an English
artist living in St Albans
, Hertfordshire. He worked in media including pastels and acrylics, and cartoons in various media, and specialist subjects include landscape, steam trains and aircraft. He ran demonstrations of pastel techniques and wrote a book, painting with pastels in the Step By Step Leisure Arts series, which has also been translated into French.
He had a beloved wife called Margret and they went on to have three sons named Graham, Steve and Mark and also had 3 grandchildren called Rowan, Poppy and Christopher.
Coombs' work included commissions for McAlpine Aviation, painting portraits of Jetstream aircraft for presentation to customers. This commission was partly the result of Coombs' having worked on the Jetstream during his earlier time at Handley-Page. He painted a number of book covers for aviation themed books from Goodall Publications.
Other notable work was a series of steam train pictures in acrylic which were reproduced by the Medici Gallery as gift cards; he also exhibited at Medici in London and at Liberty's
, where he had several times been commissioned to sit in the shop window painting pastels, as an attraction. He was a regular demonstrator for art suppliers Winsor & Newton
.
Peter was a great cricket fan and built a model cricket ground complete with model figures painted in likeness to current teams and lighting which moves to simulate the movement of the sun during the day. Cricket commentator Brian Johnston
visited the model ground and spent some time describing it on Test Match Special, leading to Coombs being invited to present the models of the then English and Australian captains to the players following that year's Ashes series. He has been interviewed on radio and television about his life as an artist. Coombs died on 9 August 2007 after a brief battle with cancer.
England
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artist living in St Albans
St Albans
St Albans is a city in southern Hertfordshire, England, around north of central London, which forms the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans. It is a historic market town, and is now a sought-after dormitory town within the London commuter belt...
, Hertfordshire. He worked in media including pastels and acrylics, and cartoons in various media, and specialist subjects include landscape, steam trains and aircraft. He ran demonstrations of pastel techniques and wrote a book, painting with pastels in the Step By Step Leisure Arts series, which has also been translated into French.
He had a beloved wife called Margret and they went on to have three sons named Graham, Steve and Mark and also had 3 grandchildren called Rowan, Poppy and Christopher.
Coombs' work included commissions for McAlpine Aviation, painting portraits of Jetstream aircraft for presentation to customers. This commission was partly the result of Coombs' having worked on the Jetstream during his earlier time at Handley-Page. He painted a number of book covers for aviation themed books from Goodall Publications.
Other notable work was a series of steam train pictures in acrylic which were reproduced by the Medici Gallery as gift cards; he also exhibited at Medici in London and at Liberty's
Liberty (department store)
Liberty is a long-established department store in Regent Street in Central London, England, in the West End shopping district.-Early years:...
, where he had several times been commissioned to sit in the shop window painting pastels, as an attraction. He was a regular demonstrator for art suppliers Winsor & Newton
Winsor & Newton
Winsor & Newton manufactures a wide variety of fine art products including: oils, alkyds, watercolours, acrylics, pastels, brushes, canvases, papers, portfolios, and distributes the Derwent pencil sets.-History:...
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Peter was a great cricket fan and built a model cricket ground complete with model figures painted in likeness to current teams and lighting which moves to simulate the movement of the sun during the day. Cricket commentator Brian Johnston
Brian Johnston
Brian Alexander Johnston CBE, MC was a cricket commentator and presenter for the BBC from 1946 until his death.-Early life and education:...
visited the model ground and spent some time describing it on Test Match Special, leading to Coombs being invited to present the models of the then English and Australian captains to the players following that year's Ashes series. He has been interviewed on radio and television about his life as an artist. Coombs died on 9 August 2007 after a brief battle with cancer.