PY Logo Peter Young

Mountain & Landscape Painting

EN | DE


PY with camera
This is where I can share my passion for mountain landscape and wild natural places with others who are excited by the beauty of light and colour, shape and form, and the diversity of the scenery all around us. Although I use photography to capture the raw material, the definitive medum of my artistic expression is through paint and brush on canvas. Enjoy your visit!
PY with brushes in hand

The Paintings Biography Exhibitions

What's on
from 22nd May 2026 « On the trail - Hiking in Switzerland »
The exhibition in the Library at Guisanplatz, Berne, in co-operation with Swisstopo, the Swiss Federal Office for Topography and others, features the history and traditions of hiking in Switzerland, together with a selection of paintings by members of the Guild of Swiss Mountain Painters, including my painting «Evening Light on the Säntis». More about the exhibition is available here.
 Evening Light on the Säntis

from 31st July 2026

« Spirit of the Alps »

The 29th Annual Exhibition of the Guild of Swiss Mountain Painters will be held in the Congress Centre, Grindelwald from the 31st July to 23rd August 2026. Over 40 members are taking part and I'm showing two paintings of the mountains by Grindelwald. I will be present at the Vernissage on Friday 31st July and on Sunday 2nd August and would be delighted to meet you there. For further information please see the Flyer.
 The Wetterhorn
Eiger and Jungfrau from above First Grindelwald

The Paintings
List of Works >>

Alpiglen and the Wetterhorn in Winter
Moonrise over the Finsteraarhorn
Bussalp with Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau

Since my early years I have been drawn to wild natural landscape, and especially to the hills and mountains, first in North Wales, in the English Lake District and in Scotland, and more recently to the Alps in Switzerland where I now live. Photography is the medium I use to capture the variety of landscape forms and their ever-changing moods in different conditions of light, weather and season, and provides the raw material for my subsequent painting in the studio.

For me, painting with brush on canvas is how I can best express what I feel most deeply about the richness of landscape and the magic of the mountain scene. In the process I re-live the excitement of the original moment and discover many details which I had hardly noticed at the time.

Search by Category

I invite you to view the results of my endeavours by browsing through the paintings, which are arranged by subject type and geograhical location, and hope you can share my pleasure in the beauty of wild natural scenery.

Biography
more >>

Born in 1942, I grew up in England but it was books about the Alps and Himalaya that opened a window on the world of hills and mountains, and awakened my interest in photography and landscape painting.

Having learned in my early years the basic skills of drawing and painting I started to use acrylics in the 1980s and have developed my technique in this medium ever since.

Crib Goch 1954
Zermatt 1990
Bachalpsee 2012

For over 30 years I have lived in Switzerland, working at first as an IT professional in the chemical industry and then as a self-employed website designer. In my spare time I was able to pursue my artistic interests and was accepted as a member of the Guild of Swiss Mountain Painters in 1995, serving on the committee as exhibition organiser and webmaster between 2000 and 2012. In 2013 I was elected as an Honorary Member of the Guild.

You can read here my Artist Statement and my views on quality and aesthetics in the art of landscape painting.

Exhibitions
more >>

Since 1985 I have participated in many exhibitions, which has given me the opportunity to show my work to a wider audience and to offer original works and reproductions for sale.

For many years I have exhibited not only in and around Basel but also in many parts of Switzerland, thanks to my membership of the Guild of Swiss Mountain Painters.

A chronological summary of the various exhibitions, with details of date, venue and the works shown is given in the Exhibition List.

GSBM Ausstellung 2012 Appenzell
Ausstellung Trotte Arlesheim 2014
Ausstellung KSU Unterseen 2014

Visit our Virtual Reality exhibition

Click here for a Virtual Reality tour of the 3-D exhibition of mountain paintings by Werner Beyeler and myself.



PY 2017

For me the challenge of landscape painting is not only finding the "right" viewpoint for the chosen subject but also to catch the conditions of season, weather and lighting, that satisfies my artistic intention. The subsequent translation into paint on canvas in the studio gives me the time necessary to "do it right", whereby truth to nature is more important to me than photographic exactitude. If you are interested in a particular painting or have any questions, I would be delighted to hear from you.


Data Security Contact Copyright   ©   2026   Peter Young