Peter Cameron (Paperback)

Peter Cameron (b. 1947) took up art while serving a prison sentence, and later described his incarceration as a career move. On his release in 1992, he received the support of the Koestler Trust and was able to evolve from post-prison survivor to celebrated artist with a substantial body of work. 

In 2003, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, which took his art in a new direction, emphasising the movement that increasingly eluded him. Peter’s is an inspiring story of survival and real-life grit, richly illustrated and narrated, and embellished with Peter’s own lively anecdotes. 

His early work provides an almost unique artistic record of life in a British prison from the perspective of an inmate. In charting Peter's career, the book also shows an artist responding to a diagnosis of Parkinson's, and sustaining and adapting his creative work as the symptoms of his degenerative condition have taken hold. In addition, the book provides insights into the vital art scene of Liverpool, Peter's adoptive city.