Peter Holmes Sellers born 11th September 1959 Dublin Ireland. Married to Dr. Monika Pataki with 2 children Mimi (7) & Julianna (3).

Educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire where he took up photography and was encouraged by his art teacher, the late Mark Cheverton, to realise that he could achieve something special with photography. Later studied Economics at Trinity College Dublin and also pursued his love of photography with his photographs appearing in all the college newspapers, on the front of the 1980 USIT Globetotter magazine and selling in The Gallery of Photography on Wellington Quay.

Exhibited at Tulfarris Art Gallery in January 1981 in Group Show entitled 'Realism 1981' and also in September 1984 at another Group Show at Arnotts Department Store in Dublin entitled 'Landscape Arts Show' organised by Robert Ballagh and opened by Charles Haughey T.D. Taoiseach at the time. Also selling his work through private commissions during this time.

After College came a brief stint working in the Irish Export Board (Coras Trachtala) In Dublin and a short period as sales representative for cereal manufacturer Kelloggs around the North of England, seven years in international marketing and strategy for Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur in Dublin, International Distillers and Vintners Ltd and Grand Metropolitan PLC (now Diageo) in London and latterly working with the original creator of Baileys Original Irish Cream in 1988/89 investigating business opportunities in the newly emerging economies of central and eastern Europe where he got the inspiration and courage to follow his dream.

During Peter's intensive one year course in photography in 1990/91 at the London College of Printing, artist, Susannah Fiennes taught him about colour from a painter's perspective and where he photographed 'Prague in Spring' in both colour and black and white for his final portfolio.

"I try to produce work which captures the energy and atmosphere of people, places and nature. Using colour like a painter and drawing heavily on my intuition and the unconscious it is a strongly stylised approach to capture both beauty and sadness and the contrast between light and dark.

My main work has been photographing Hungary since 1989 culminating in a photographic essay entitled HUNGARY: AN EMERGING VISION. It came together as a picture story to help introduce, to an international audience, the location and theme of the 1996 World Expo that was later cancelled, Expo ’96 Budapest "Communication for a better world".

The story has three universal themes of water, life and colour running through it and my idea was to show that human feeling is the key to communication for a better world, or as paradoxically as the Little Prince in Saint Exupery’s famous book puts it: "But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart."

Awareness of colour and beauty gives us as human beings a unique ability to draw the energy from what we see or feel; not to have to steal from others, and so be in harmony with ourselves, each other, and the wonderful but fragile and vulnerable earth we all inhabit"

Returning to Ireland after Hungary in 1995/96, Peter started to communicate through perfume, working as a freelance creative director for Fragrances of Ireland, which has since been recognised as an exciting new international fragrance house and described by Annette Green of the Fragrance Foundation in New York as 'the new Guerlain' and Cosmopilitan Magazine describing 'Inis - the energy of the sea' as "the perfect fragrance for the new millennium" with its magical "7 Surfing Dolphins" and special message.

Since 1996 Peter has creatively orchestrated/directed and communicated 4 perfumes; the first being a redoing of an existing perfume Innisfree in 1996 before moving on to the Inis trilogy starting with Inis the energy of the sea in 1998, Inis arose in 2002 and is currently working on the final part for 2006/07

His life work is this photographic fable called 'The Magic of Light: an emerging vision' is kind of a children's picture book for grown-ups bringing the different creative strands together, a beautiful interlinking of photographs and words, colours and feelings and highlighting that sentience - how dolphins communicate through feeling - is key.

In the words of the famous perfumer Arthur Burnham; "An understanding with the head and a seeing from the heart" to make a better world for all of us