Reflections

DESCRIPTION

• Acrylic on Canvas
• 70cm x 50cm

ARTIST BIO

Pete Marsh was born near Birmingham in 1956 and graduated from Sheffield Hallam in Fine Art (Painting and Printmaking) in 1982. After graduating, he produced paintings and original prints and between 1987 and 1990 taught Art to adults in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Pete stopped painting and printmaking for almost 20 years, around 1990.

In 2009, Pete underwent surgery on a shoulder injured whilst mountain biking. While convalescing, he decided to look up old friends from university. He was able to re-ignite many friendships but was devastated to learn that his friend, Garry, had died in October 2008. The discovery of Garry’s death compelled Pete to start painting and printmaking again in September 2009. After a gap of 23 years, Pete started to exhibit and sell his work again.

Pete’s work is representational comprising largely of landscape and figurative work. He uses ‘plein-air’ sketches, studio sketches, photographs and occasionally digital manipulation techniques to help produce not just a facsimile of what he sees, but something that expresses what he and, he hopes, his audience feels. Pete attributes his love of landscape to his hours of mountain biking and walking through the north-west Pennines. He feels that his work is perceptual rather than conceptual, emotional rather than intellectual and prefers expression over realism, subtlety over sensationalism, substance over novelty and intuition over reason. Pete’s work is held in private collections in the U.K., Canada and Australia and has been widely exhibited, for example at the Royal Academy, London; Turner Glass Museum and the City Museum of Fine Art, Tapei, Taiwan.