Peter Rea is a graduate from Manchester Metropolitan University in England, with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Illustration with Animation. He grew up by the sea in West Sussex and showed a passion for drawing and art from an early age.

Throughout his childhood, Peter was inspired by artwork from comic books and graphic novels before progressing to portraits of film stars and life drawing. He also collected posters and images from various sources to turn his bedroom into one large, ever changing collage.

While studying a Business IT degree in Southampton, Peter continued to draw in his spare time and started using watercolour, as well as creating collages from music magazine images and nightclub flyers.

Peter moved to Manchester in 1998 to attend a sound engineering course and has lived there ever since. The vibrant musical city became a friendly home from home and a great source of inspiration. In 2004, he enrolled in an art foundation course at the Manchester College of Arts and Technology. His enthusiasm for art was revitalized through studying art history, life drawing, print making and photography, and by meeting like-minded and talented students from all over the world.

Peter continues to experiment with a wide variety of materials such as multi-media collage, photography, drawing, painting and animation in an attempt to develop original ideas and concepts. His work generally relates to another passion - music. He attempts to fuse an amalgamation of styles and moods, which he subconsciously absorbs from the audio and visual world around him, through the manipulation of colour, texture and dynamic.