Biography
Peter Hedegaard (b. Copenhagen, Denmark 1929 - d. London, UK 2008) came to England with his parents in 1935 and was educated at Charterhouse and Hertford College, Oxford. He studied design at the Bartlett School of Architecture. After a short period of working as a designer he turned to painting and worked at his studio in Belsize Park, London. He was mainly interested in forms, shapes and the interaction of colour. He was greatly inspired by Piero della Francesca and Josef Albers. His contemporaries included among others Bridget Riley, Jeremy Moon, Michael Kidner, Tess Jaray, Edwina Leapman and Peter Kalkhof. During the 1960s and 70s he exhibited regularly in Britain and abroad. In 1965 he produced the first limited editions of screenprints, not an established artistic medium at that time. In 1974 he was awarded a prize for his painting Green and Yellow at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition which is now in the Daimler Art Collection.
