Peter Summers is a trained taxidermist and an accidental artist.

All titles aside, Summers has his work displayed in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and so is certainly an artist in the eyes of the world (or at least in the eyes of the Scots).
His ultimate claim to fame is his eerie death mask of the dearly departed Dolly the sheep, cloned from a mammary cell in 1997 (and aptly named after Dolly Parton).

He also produced the short film "KingFisher" with videographer Andrea Roe, which uses a mounted kingfisher to explore the somewhat macabre art of taxidermy. His specimens are all ethically sourced – ‘found dead’ – so we’re guessing Summers has a pretty deep-seated appreciation for road kill.

Summers is part of the UK Guild of taxidermists and currently works in taxidermy at the National Museum of Scotland, where he is known for his magic touch: “The process of taxidermy, put crudely, is one of dismemberment and reassembly, yet in Summers’s hands we came to see it as an enlivening process.” Oh. Gross.