About Me
I’m an inventor, designer, and maker who loves to blend engineering precision with artistic wonder.
I began my career as a chartered civil engineer, then transitioned into journalism before co-founding and eventually selling a successful internet publishing venture in the U.S., a chapter that concluded in 2007.
Never one to stay still, I pursued my passion for creativity and earned a First-Class BA (Hons) in Contemporary Craft from Plymouth College of Art (now Arts University Plymouth) in 2018. My degree project, The Snake Pit—a robotic installation—was selected as a “pick of the show” at the London Design Fair that same year.
Since 2012 I’ve been immersed in projects across materials and scale—designing the Devonport Column gates, decorating a giant fibreglass fish, collaborating on The Wall for Tate Exchange, and creating community artworks such as Message in a Bottle, Rainbow Fish, Reindeer, and Carnival Dragon.
Alongside my studio practice, I’m deeply involved in Looe’s creative community. As a trustee of Looe Shedders CIO, I’ve played a key role in projects that bring people together through making and shared skills. More recently, I became a director of Creative Looe CIC, where I helped get the ball rolling on its first major public art and community initiative—the Creative Looe Festival.
These days, my studio is alive with movement: Snakebots revitalise The Snake Pit legacy; my Prostate Cancer Journey — Chapter 2 and Radiotherapy Sketchbook offer deeply personal visual narratives; and a playful series of clothes-peg automata (Strong Man, Sawing Man, Hammering Man) explore human gestures in miniature form.
Whether in metal, glass, ceramics—or unconventional materials like chocolate, tea leaves, and recycled cans—I aim to amuse, intrigue, and inspire. I invite viewers to engage, reflect, and enjoy.
(Last updated: September 2025)
Peter Heywood's CV (September 2025)
My workshop in May 2014. I was nearing completion of "Ring" (centre) and
just getting started on "Ghosts" (wax cylinders to the right of the ring)