Peter nardini biography
Peter Nardini is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where he won the prestigious Cargil Award.
Peter is a Scottish artist who works manly in acrylic with a broad range of subject matter.!
Peter Nardini was born in 1947, the son of an Italian immigrant family.
His life reads like the lyrics of a song.
He was an active child and as a small boy he would love to get the A4 sized sheets of white card from the packaging in cartons of Cadbury's Chocolates from his father's Cafe in Hamilton and he would draw in pencil on them.
He loved art but hated school and as a result he left school at the age of fifteen and got a job as an apprentice watchmaker at a jewellers - it was like something out of Dickens.
He also worked for a short period in retail and wholesale and regularly resisted his father's call to come and work for him in the family shop. At the age of nineteen he got married to Alison, who was eighteen. As it was a mixed sectarian marriage, they married without their respective parent's permission, leading to an almighty ‘blow up’.
As things settled Peter decided he had to 'screw the nut' and make something of his life.
He went back to college and gained the quali
