BIO

Peter Cady grew up on the coast of New Hampshire. His study of painting began as a boy observing painters with their easels overlooking the ocean. He studied civil engineering but found he was drawn to things artistic and to working with his hands. After college he worked in construction and learned fine woodworking. He still lives in the timber framed house he built from his trees. His furniture making started to incorporate color and a variety of materials, evolving into sculpture. After a second career of teaching science to middle school students, he returned to the arts. He often shows work with Tom Glover, Dustan Knight, and Barbara Adams as part of the Abstract4 group.

Solo shows
2025 Ceres Bakery, Portsmouth, NH
2022 Ceres Bakery, Portsmouth, NH
2020-22 Rye Public Library, Rye, NH
2019 Ceres Bakery, Portsmouth, NH

Group shows
2026
Seacoast Nocturnes, Robert Levy Gallery of NH Art Association, Portsmouth, NH
Mythologies, Rye Public Library, Rye, NH & North Hampton Public Library, North Hampton, NH

2025
We the People, Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Annual Show,Great Bay Estuarine Reserve, Greenland, NH
ArtPM, BUOY, Kittery, ME

2024
Abstracted NE Winters, The Art Center, Dover, NH
Stories, Hotel Thaxter, Portsmouth, NH
Coastline Abstracted, Cliff House, Cape Neddick, ME
The Gallery at Hearth Restaurant, Portsmouth, NH
ArtPM, BUOY, Kittery, ME
Mugs, La Mulita, Rye,NH
The Matter of Memory, Portsmouth Historical Society, NH
Annual show,Great Bay Estuarine Reserve, Greenland, NH

2023
Viewpoints, 100 Market St.,Portsmouth, NH
Studio Works, York Public Library, York, ME
Jazzscapes II, Portsmouth Music & Art Center
Lost Neighborhoods, Discover Portsmouth Center
Holiday Show, The Art Center, Dover, NH
Art PM, BUOY, Kittery, ME
Rye400, Rye, NH

2022
Jazzscapes, The Art Center, Dover, NH
On the Edge, University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH

2021
Abstracting the Seacoast, Discover Portsmouth Center, Portsmouth, NH
2019
September 100 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH
2018
Amesbury Mills, Amesbury, MA
Hilton-Winn Farm, Cape Neddick, ME
2017
Old Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA
Main Street Art, Newfields, NH
2016
Village Arts Gallery, Kittery, ME
2016-19
Art PM, BUOY, Kittery, ME
2015
Nancy Barrett Gallery, Portsmouth, NH