Peter Deighan is one of Europe’s leading equestrian and portrait painters. He spent the first 14 years of his life on a farm in Ireland where looking after animals including working horses was second nature. He had already acquired a considerable reputation as a portrait painter before being introduced to the world of equestrianism.
Deighan’s paintings hang in the most prestigious collections throughout the world which include the Vatican, Dr and Mrs Vincent O’Brien, Mr & Mrs Robert Sangster, Dr & Mrs Michael Smurfit, Sheikh Hamdan. Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum and others
His portrait commissions include many celebrated names and his work also hangs regularly in the annual exhibitions of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Society of Equestrian Artists
