Peter Coombs

Who is Peter Coombs?

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.