Peter Force is a Titirangi based artist who primarily works with soft pastels and charcoal. His work is emotive, colourful and immediate, and usually focused on a singular subject or focal point. A face, a bird, a waterfall or a tree. Peter was a 2024 Parkin Drawing Prize finalist and his most recent exhibition, Family Tree, featured large oil paintings of Kauris encountered on bushwalks in the Waitakere Ranges.