With oil and enamel paint, bronze and silver leaf, also spray paint, my images evolve slowly and conjure a parallel world of past and present. This world is evocative of centuries past but is also an expression of current emotions and life in the present. Often I begin with ideas like say: “cupid and a bear” and the “war” and off I go with my focus on the paint and its application and my response to the process of painting. I find the process of oil painting an amalgamation of gestures, wonderful materials and chance. I cannot completely define my intentions, and often the final image is far from my initial intent but I feel I am building a world rich in mysticism and characters that are not vacant and will continue to have much to surprise and have much to say. My ten years in Seville, Spain during the decade of the 90’s continue to percolate and influence my work to this day now ten years on. Those 10 years painting in Spain and 10 more painting in Buffalo, NY have combined, and interwoven themselves to create a style oddly baroque and modern. 

History

Born in Denver Colorado, 1961, he is a graduate of Colorado College with a degree in economics. Peter began painting at the age of 25 while working at a computer firm in Boston (1985). He left Boston and went to San Francisco (1987) where he maintained a freelance computer graphics business to support painting until his move to Europe in 1989. In Europe, Peter showed regularly at the Pablo del Barco Gallery in Seville, and the Spatium Gallery in Tavira, Portugal. He came to Buffalo after living in Seville for ten years. In Buffalo he has shown work at the Burchfield-Penney, Anderson Gallery, Gallery 164, Insight Gallery, and Kepa3. Peter’s work can be found in corporate and private collections internationally.

Works in Corporate and Cultural Collections:

Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

ADUANA, Fondo Cultural, Cadiz, Spain,

Selected 1995, and 1997 Premio FOCUS, Seville, Spain

Selected 1997 Premio Pintura, Ciudad Utrera, Seville, Spain

Collection, Pablo del Barco, Galeria del Barco, Seville, Spain

MatriSur, Seville, Spain;

Galeria Felix Gomez, Seville, Spain

Galeria Spatium, Tavira, Portugal

Corporate Collections:

Eastman Machines Company, Buffalo, NY

Uniland Development , Buffalo, NY

Rigidized Metals, Buffalo, NY

Friedman Development, Denver Colorado

Iskalo Development Corporation, Buffalo, NY

Seymour Knox IV, Buffalo, NY

Wade and Lori Stevenson, Buffalo, NY