My paintings as promised

Lara said:
Well done! Yes, a colorist painter you are and such a contrast to your gray-scale art in your youth when you were abused. I see so much healing in your heart, mind, and soul since that time in your life.

John 19:28-30 was a deeply soul-stirring moment. I'm intrigued by your painting. I'd be interested in what you were feeling and expressing when you painted it. As I look at it, I'm seeing a unique perspective.
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Thank you Lara for your reply.

Just letting you know that the gray-scale art was done a few decades ago after I read a few books on art therapy.

I am glad you noticed the strange perspective. The observer of the scene is the spirit of Jesus, within him, just before being given up.
My impression is that the spirit too can see through the eye sockets. The double imaging is the crossover of both eyes; the left eye sees part of the right side and the right eye see part of the left side _ like when observing what each eye sees while the other eye is shut.
 

CallMeKate said:
I can only echo what others have said, @reteP ... your work is vibrant and amazing... and I sincerely hope to hear that you've picked it up again in the near future. Crucifixion is a stunner, and probably my favorite if I'd have to choose one.
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Thank you CallMeKate for your kind words.
Not too many people grasp the image, but when they do, many get a startling point of view.
 
reteP said:
Thank you OneEyedDiva.
A curator told me that I was a colorist. I was not like that at the beginning (at home). I guess my first experience with LSD stuffed that up :LOL:.
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Classifying you as "a colorist" does you a disservice in my view. Putting that label on your work is superficial and narrow-minded. Besides technical skill, your work obviously presents imagination, provocative imagery, composition... and I'd say also concept.

I don't know if you'll agree, but to me Landscape Dreaming evokes a theme of liberation from captivity or limitation. I'd think it's something that came from you. It came to you directly & freshly, and isn't derivative. At the same time I can feel there's an affinity or resonance with that theme of arriving at freedom or achieving liveliness that we can perceive in this work by MC Escher; in his piece the immobile rectangular patches of land gradually morph into birds in flight.

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JBR said:
Classifying you as "a colorist" does you a disservice in my view. Putting that label on your work is superficial and narrow-minded. Besides technical skill, your work obviously presents imagination, provocative imagery, composition... and I'd say also concept.

I don't know if you'll agree, but to me Landscape Dreaming evokes a theme of liberation from captivity or limitation. I'd think it's something that came from you. It came to you directly & freshly, and isn't derivative. At the same time I can feel there's an affinity or resonance with that theme of arriving at freedom or achieving liveliness that we can perceive in this work by MC Escher; in his piece the immobile rectangular patches of land gradually morph into birds in flight.

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Thank you JBR for your response, concern and share.

I am a colourist, as well as other things, such as you mentioned.

How did I become a colourist? We all have experiences, if we allow it, to influence us. During one Christmas break I worked as an assistant to an Architectural Renderer. My task was to convert architectural plans, of skyscrapers, to an impressive perspective drawing for the renderer to paint.

He was a very good renderer. These renderings were primarily to impress the council to approve the construction of the building. Now here is the thing, the renderings never show any pollution whatsoever. They are super clean, crisp and colourful. I was so impressed that I followed suit with my own renderings.
 
JBR said:
Classifying you as "a colorist" does you a disservice in my view. Putting that label on your work is superficial and narrow-minded. Besides technical skill, your work obviously presents imagination, provocative imagery, composition... and I'd say also concept.
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By "colorist" that curator probably meant an artist who uses color symbolically rather than to realistically represent the subjects in the painting.
 
Murrmurr said:
Your paintings say a lot about you, Peter. It's clear painting has been good therapy for you...or, at least an excellent means of expressing things you probably normally keep to yourself.
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Thank you Murrmurr.
at least an excellent means of expressing things you probably normally keep to yourself.
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Interesting statement. I am not afraid to express what is true and loving. And because of that they see me as quirky, and it comes out in my paintings too. As you said Murrmurr, an excellent means of expressing myself even more so. As I am getting older, the metaphysical aspects of truth and loving become more important to me, and I wish to explore and express what I find.
 
Remy said:
You are immensely talented!

I'm so sorry, but it's understandable about your art being needed in childhood and you don't feel the want or need to do it as much as an adult. If I understood that correctly.

My favorites are the first and the beach painting. I wonder what the significance of the tree bar painting is?
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This may explain it.
My art as therapy
 

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