‘Peter Kettle looks for ancient pilgrimages across the world that surround revered mountains, and as a multidisciplinary artist, immerses himself in planned journeys around his native Wales, Britain and world-wide. He will explore the remotest regions and summits of mountains with his sketchbook and roll of canvas strapped to his back, recording colour, texture and weather elements. His work weaves a story of images through long and challenging expeditions, hiking across the Andes in Patagonia - 2018, and Basecamp of Everest - March 2019 and across Hokkaido and Japan 2023.

“With each project my ethos is to investigate a landscape with curiosity, compassion and creativity; by learning from local guides and charities about the expedition area, and most importantly, to give back in what way I can. Each expedition is about learning how people connect to the land and how to honour and champion the conservation of these areas of natural beauty through local initiatives.”

With a background in documentary filmmaking, Kettle works alongside charities and local guides to further his understanding of the landscape and create a narrative around his artwork.

Kettle works studies up into ambitiously scaled, expressive landscape paintings using oil paint and other media poured, rubbed and splashed onto the canvas. His paintings have the surfaces of well-worn exterior walls, buffeted and corroded with the appearance of having withstood the effects of time and weather – a technique that gives his work an enlivening combination of stoicism and nostalgia.’ 

Kettle was recently awarded the Daiwa-Anglo Foundation Grant for his project in Japan, and in 2025 the WLCO Award on behalf of the Welsh livery, presented at the Senned in Cardiff. He has featured on BBC News for his environmental project ‘Plastics on the Himalayas’ and featured in the The Guardian and Moneyweek magazine as ‘One to Watch. Kettle was recently voted in as a Fellow for the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He now lives in Bristol and works at BV Studios.