Memory, art and poetry

The Moon on the Window, The Sun on the Canvas

Peter Goode, a self-taught poet and artist, turned painting, poetry and adult education into spaces of personal transformation.

This site opens a life story shaped by resilience, a body of luminous organic works, and a documentary archive born from the book devoted to Peter Goode.

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1934-2012

A life between Huddersfield, Hebden Bridge and Pecket Well

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Children raised largely on his own, central to the life story

Art + poetry

A body of work where language and image remain inseparable

Peter Goode painting, A Touch of Pollen
Three ways in

Entering a living memory

The site combines biography, artworks and archives to approach Peter Goode through the full human depth of his life and practice.

Journey

A biography of transformation

From childhood shaped by dyslexia to years of painting and exhibiting, the timeline shows a slow conquest of voice and form.

 Works

An organic, filterable gallery

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and ink cards answer each other across themes of life force, birds, metamorphosis and repair.

 Archives

Book, documents and testimonies

Extracts, photographs, captions and tributes gather the collective documentary dimension of the project around Josie Pollentine and Peter's companions.