Peter Noel Lawson Aspell, celebrated Canadian artist, was born in Vancouver BC on Christmas Day, 1918.  Aspell has shown locally and internationally for over 40 years.
He studied with Charles H. Scott at the Vancouver School of Art; Ghent Academy, Belgium, c.1947 and later taught at the Vancouver School of Art 1948-70; University of British Columbia 1965; Peter Aspell School of Art, Vancouver, 1970-1978.
Served in the Canadian Army in Europe in WWII. Affiliations: BCSA 1950-63; CGP 1957. 
 
Peter passed away in Vancouver on Dec 28, 2004 and is missed by the countless individuals whose lives he so genuinely and generously touched.