PETER LAWRENCE   (b.1951) Born in Hornchurch, Essex. Attended art college in Bristol gaining a degree in Illustration. Worked freelance and for the University of Bristol before moving to Oxford in 1978. Book designer and then MD of Oxford Designers & Illustrators till retirement in 2013. Began wood engraving in 1990, elected a member of the Society of Wood Engravers and was Chairman (2006–2011). Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Prints held in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, t Read Morehe Victoria and Albert Museum, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Heilongjiang Museum of Art, China.

Skills: wood engraving