Peter Porteus Australian

Peter has spent his life creating art in various forms; he has spent the bulk of his career in the graphic design industry, starting work with pen and pencil in a creative studio in the 1980's, then designing and illustrating using computers as the industry turned digital.

Following a serious illness in 2014 including a spell in hospital, Peter reconnected with creating art by hand to aid his recovery. He set himself a brief to create beautiful works that existed in the world, rather than digitally, bucking the modern trend for NFTs and virtual works. Peter finds real fulfillment and joy in the uniqueness of each piece, and the ink splatters and smudges or blobs of oil Paint add genuine randomness that, he says, is difficult and time-consuming for a computer to replicate authentically, and adds a real sense of human expression.

The study of the nude has been a recent focus in the last few years, and now he is turning to the Australian landscape for inspiration, abstracting forms and looking towards the great mid century painters such as Fred Williams.

Peter is represented by Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Putney