Peter Ursem

Peter Ursem is a Dutch-born artist and writer who studied literature at Utrecht and painting and printmaking at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. He came to Dorset in 1998, where landscape became his main subject, including woodcuts of the River Stour, and later moved to the Tamar Valley. He specialises in multi-colour linocuts, drawings and paintings, and writes fiction for young readers as Petrus Ursem. Eye Heart Hand is at Shaftesbury Arts Centre.