Peter Ireland is a New Zealand artist who was born at Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island of new Zealand in 1947 and has been painting seriously since 1970.
He lived in Gisborne from 1983-1995 then relocated to Wanganui to take up the Tylee House, Artist-in-Residence in 1995/96.

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