Peter Stephenson newspaper illustrator and artist

This is my Father's obituary in the Courier Mail. Sadly, he died on the 14th January 2010.

Artists view life with careful eyes and imagination. They frame life and present it to our eyes. My father loved the Australian landscape, horses and birds, and these are well reflected in his art. Some artists never become famous in the eyes of the world, and few readers would have noticed the signature under his many illustrations in the Courier Mail, but they were the work of a talented artist. His work in the Art Room of the Courier Mail enabled him to support us as a family.
Given time, I may be able to assemble some of them from newspaper microfilm archives. The scanned images I assembled as a Powerpoint for his 80th birthday party can be found at slideshare and below.
As a family we hope to compile a booklet of his life and art.

He left his family paintings, poetry, jazz cds and an illustrated story of his childhood. Most of all he left us an inherited creative streak, a love of playfulness and nonsense, many rambling conversations on all sorts of topics, and a lot of quiet love.
Googling his name I find there are two Australian artists named Peter Stephenson, but to my mind Dad is the original and the best.