Peter Ellis has produced bizarre paintings, drawings, prints, objects and books for more than 35 years. He is known for his innovative use of animal imagery. He invents hybrid creatures that inhabit incongruous psychological spaces.

Ellis’s imagery has its origins in automatic drawing from the imagination that is often simultaneously intimate in scale, calligraphic and articulate.  Strange animals, characters and abstracted forms are dredged from subconscious thoughts often without pre-conception. Through conscious analysis and research inspired by these drawings another layer of associated imagery from a wide variety of sources is created.