Peter Thomson uses his art as a meeting place for his robust imagination, sense of Scottish history, to comment in an individual manner on many contemporary issues with a surreal take on everyday scenarios.This is one of two paintings by Peter Thomson with the same title "Beehive," but it is the only one in the Fleming Collection.

Peter Thomson, born 1962

Peter Thomson was born in Glasgow in 1962 and works as a painter, muralist, and draughtsman. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1980 to 1984 and graduated with honours. Thomson was an astute observer of social attitudes and human behaviour whose art had a fantastic quality. He served as the Haringey Health Authority Mural Project supervisor from 1986 to 1997. Among the commissions was Artlink's (Edinburgh) 1993 painting for St. John's Hospital in Livingston. He has taken part in a variety of group exhibits, such as the National Burns Exhibition at the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh in 1996, the Ride and Passion exhibition at Tottenham Town Hall in 1987, and many others. Scottish Arts Council Assistance Grant, 1990; Purchase Prize, Brave Art Competition, British Museum and Art Gallery, Stirling; Noble Grossart Painting Prize, second prize, both 1996; and many others are just a few examples of awards and contests.