Peter Churcher

Churcher has two children, Saul and Charlotte who live with Peter and his wife Andrea in Spain.

He holds a Bachelor of Music (Hons) from Melbourne University that he acquired in 1986, he also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Prahran School of Art and Design, that he acquired in 1991.

He was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary about the Archibald Prize called Loaded Brush.

He was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2005 with his Portrait of Jeffrey Smart, in 2006 with his painting Bruce, Linde and me on the road to Guadelupe, in 2014 and 2015.

This focus all stems from my devotion to the great figurative masters such as Velasquez and Rembrandt and my firm belief and personal quest to depict our own surrounding world of visual, sensory and emotional stimuli through paint on canvas.