Peter Howson.

Peter Howson is a Scottish artist whose subject matter is more often than not the people who exist at the very fringes of modern urban society such as the homeless ,drug addicts etc.Howson depicts his individuals in a kind of heroic hopelessness,in which a host of characters are helplessly driven by their paranoid and aggressive mental states.Howson subjects are a composite of many individuals that the artist has met in his travels around Glasgow.His characters are social constructs that are un romantically portrayed in exaggerated characterisation.