A selection of original paintings.
The original paintings, listed below as “Available” are still for sale. However, because of their varying sizes, frame’s, post and packing, etc, it is not possible to include all the options for buying any original paintings on this website. Therefore, please contact Peter if you are interested in buying any of his original paintings; he will then be able to give a quote for the price, depending on size, frame, postage and packing.
The original paintings shown below as ”Private Collection” have already been sold, but giclee prints of those paintings are still available, and can be ordered by adding them to your shopping basket on this website.
After Eden.
After Eden
The large original painting is still available, as well as small giclee prints.
The ideas for this painting gradually started to come together over a period of about six months. The first stimulus was when Sam Scorer said that he wanted to see more large painting in his gallery. The second was after several visits to see the sculptures in the Eden Project, on Peter’s regular visits to Cornwall. The third was when the theme for the annual Nadin exhibition was chosen as “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Finally, the Scothern church House Group decided to take a suggestion, by the Bishop of Lincoln, to study “Romans” in the New Testament as the theme for their monthly meetings. Peter had just started his preliminary sketches for this painting when, that same week, he read Romans, Chapter 1, verse 15 and to his amazement he realised that it described what he had just been sketching! After the temptations of the apple, in the original Garden of Eden, came grapes and wine, with even more temptations – hence this final oil painting called “After Eden”.
Study in Red and Blue.
Study in Blue and Red
The original painting is in a Private Collection, but Giclee prints are available.
Unfortunately, in 2004 Peter unexpectedly lost his left eye after what should have been a minor operation under a local anaesthetic. That stopped Peter from painting for about two years. When he started painting again he found it very difficult to coordinate his hand and remaining eye. Therefore, he used four small canvases, with similar designs, to gradually build up his skills again. He then decided to combine the four canvases to produce this finished abstract painting. Perhaps the design was subconciously based on memories of the Masai people that he had met in Kenya, a few years earlier.
Abstract 1.
Abstract 1
The original oil painting is in a Private Collection, but giclee prints are available.
Peter enjoyed painting the first abstract painting, after he lost his left eye, and so he decided to paint another one, with the same type of design, based on memories of his visits to Kenya.
It also gave Peter the opportunity to experiment more freely with the use of combinations of colour and shades, but still retaining the strong elements of the basic design elements of the original drawing.
Abstract 2.
Abstract 2
The original oil painting is in a Private Collection, but giclee prints are available.
This was another abstract experiment by Peter, but this time it was not to a specific drawing design and the colour pallet was deliberately kept very constrained.
Peter originally thought about several titles for this painting, but in the end he decided to leave it to the viewer to decide what they thought it might represent.
Squaring the Circle 1.
Squaring the Circle 1
This original oil painting is still available, as well as giclee prints of the painting.
The theme for the Lincolshire Artists’ Society 2010 annual exhibition was “Squaring the Circle”, which raised a few eyebrows! However, it did make their members think much harder about what to paint.
Peter decided to develop four square canvases that could then be fastned together to produce a final painting. The design was based on numerous squares and circles, in a range of colours that would help to pick out those individual shapes and areas within the whole painting. This was the first of two paintings based on this theme.
Squaring the Circle 2.
Squaring the Circle 2
This original collage is still available, as well as giclee prints of the painting.
This collage was produced for the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society 2010 annual exhibition, when the theme was “Squaring the Circle”. The theme was based on the age old question of whether or not it is possible to construct a square and a circle with the same area as each other. The answer in NO, but the expression is also used as a grammatical term, summed up as “Trying to achieve the impossible”. The collage was built up on the design of circles and squares. A sheet of glass was then placed in front of the collage on which the mathematical proof was summarised, as well as giving a brief historical record of the 4,000 years spent on tying to “Square the Circle”. This was another excellent example of making us all think more deeply about producing new art work by setting difficult themes for annual exhibitions.