Peter Smith - Australian Landscape Artist
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Capturing the Light ….
I have had a love of landscape since early childhood growing up in rural Victoria. The landscape for me is about colour and texture.
I take my inspiration from the sensation of colour expressed so beautifully by the Australian Impressionists and the interplay of light and shade they so wonderfully convey.
The French Impressionists have also been an inspiration and during travels through Europe I attended workshops in France (2007) – with Michel Cribelier at Giverney and Frederique Leclercq at Gisors.
Most of my landscapes and seascapes are paintings of Australia, but there are some painted from my visits to other countries. I would call my style impressionist, but certainly leaning towards realism.
In 2010, as a mature age student, I completed a Diploma of Visual Arts.
Today’s landscape has become saturated with the signs of our modern society – billboards, spreading urbanisation, industrialisation, mining – and I aim to remind us all of the beauty of nature we are often destroying or too busy to enjoy.
Peter Smith, Australian Landscape Artist, Hobart, 2016
I have had a love of landscape since early childhood growing up in rural Victoria. The landscape for me is about colour and texture.
I take my inspiration from the sensation of colour expressed so beautifully by the Australian Impressionists and the interplay of light and shade they so wonderfully convey.
The French Impressionists have also been an inspiration and during travels through Europe I attended workshops in France (2007) – with Michel Cribelier at Giverney and Frederique Leclercq at Gisors.
Most of my landscapes and seascapes are paintings of Australia, but there are some painted from my visits to other countries. I would call my style impressionist, but certainly leaning towards realism.
In 2010, as a mature age student, I completed a Diploma of Visual Arts.
Today’s landscape has become saturated with the signs of our modern society – billboards, spreading urbanisation, industrialisation, mining – and I aim to remind us all of the beauty of nature we are often destroying or too busy to enjoy.
Peter Smith, Australian Landscape Artist, Hobart, 2016