Peter Loizou designed and with fellow students from the Weymouth College carved the monument to Thomas Fowell Buxton Baronet and MP for Weymouth who led the anti slavery movement succeeding William Wilberforce in the early nineteenth century.
Peter’s family roots are in Akanthou which is now in occupied Cyprus. He was born in London in Finsbury Park in 1974 . Peter studied at King’s College London where he got a degree in Geography. He belated discovered a talent for art at night classes at St Martin School of Art in London. Basically then left the day job and went to study stonemasonry at Weymouth College at the Dorset Arts Centre in Poundbury the new town founded by HRH The Prince of Wales in Dorset. He is now a lecturer at the college.