1959 born Edinburgh, lives and works in Trinidad

Developed from film stills, footage of actual events or photographs of urban and rural environments, Peter Doig's paintings emanate a quiet nostalgia, triggering a lingering sense of a long forgotten memory. His work often deals with subjects at the fringes of normality, peripheral or marginal sites, unnamed places where the urban and natural worlds collide. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 and winner of the John Moores Foundation Prize the previous year, Doig is known for his innovative exploration of the formal and thematic possibilities of landscape. His rigorous approach to surface, texture and colour puts him among the most inventive painters of his generation.