“This proved a unique and fascinating challenge to one more accustomed to seeking fruit bodies on the forest floor than studying intricate microscopic organisms through a lens,” says Peter whose interests cover natural history, landscapes and seascapes. His natural history subjects include fungi, which has led to commissions from the British Mycological Society for illustrations for a Pocket Guide to Common Fungi and a Poster of Common Fungi. Peter retired in 2014 after a career in rural land agency in Cornwall and Dorset. He is a self-taught artist, working mainly in watercolour but also using acrylics; he is planning to expand into oils. He has exhibited with the Royal Watercolour Society at the Bankside Gallery in London. For the past seven years during the month of October he has enjoyed putting together collections of fungi studies and other autumnal subjects for a Wild Autumn Art exhibition at the Five Arrows Gallery, Exbury in Hampshire and exhibiting work as a member of the Four Seasons Art Group at the same gallery in the spring. On retirement, Peter always planned to return to Cornwall (his parents moved to Cornwall from Sussex in 1948) and he now lives with his wife, Christine, at Tredinnick, south of Duloe. They have a daughter, Clare, who is a sound engineer, based in London.