peter brown/paintings

WOVEN series

Woven 362, ac/panel, 20 x 20

Woven 327, ac/panel, 20 x 20

Woven 378, ac/panel, 20 x 20

Woven 122, ac/panel, 20 x 20

Woven 329, ac/panel, 24 x 24

Woven 324, ac/panel, 20 x 20

Woven 100, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Woven 328, ac/panel, 20 x 20

Woven 39.2, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Woven 333, ac/panel, 20 x 20

Woven 139, ac/panel, 24 x 24

ROME series

Rome 2.79, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome 14.1, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome 2.82, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome 2.11, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome 9.3, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome 2.60, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome Sequence 1, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome 2, ac/panel, 15 x 15

Rome 2.48, ac/panel, 15 x 15

INTERIORS series

At the Desert's End, ac/panel, 18 x 23 1/2

The Round Table, ac/panels, 21 x 29

Room in Morning Light, ac/panels, 9 x 13

Two Chairs, Three Patterns, ac/panels, 7 1/2 x 11

Bedroom with Flower Patterns, ac/panels, 8 x 13

Vanity with Pattern, ac/panels, 17 x 24

Chair with Pattern, ac/panels, 9 x 13

A Wild Sanctuary, ac/panel, 20 x 24

Dining Room & Back Stairs, ac/panels, 30 x 26

RECENT PAINTINGS

My work consists of four distinct yet connected series of images:

The Woven and Rome paintings focus on geometric abstraction and the formal qualities of color and shape.
The Interiors paintings depict metaphoric architectural spaces from observation and invention.
The Journal series is made up of multi-paneled, representational images that are narrative in nature.

JOURNAL series

The Erosion of Sentimentality, ac/panels, 9 x 12

Seekers and Searchers, ac/panels, 16 x 32

The Fleeting Minute, ac/panels, 13 x 20

Full Moon, Long Sands, ac/panels, 12 x 19

The Awkward Conversation, ac/panels, 36 x 28

Balance, charcoal/paper, 9 x 17 1/2

The Seekers, ac/panels, 5 1/4x 11

Nova Scotia, 1919, ac/panels, 5 1/4 x.12jpg

Faint Stirrings of a Summer Day, ac/panels, 9 3/4 x 11

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About the Paintings

The Rome series was begun in Rome in 2010 while I was a visiting artist at the American Academy. My research focused on ancient Roman mosaics as well as those created for Roman churches in the 12th and 13th centuries by the Cosmati mosaicists.

The Woven paintings have been intentionally structured to emphasize formal aspects of color and shape and how they can be arranged to define form and space. The grid-like configuration is intended to enhance the spatial ambiguity, allowing the figure/ground relationships to shift.

The Interiors paintings focus on the metaphoric nature of architectural spaces. Some of them are inspired by research that I was able to do at various houses owned by Historic New England in New Hampshire and Maine over the course of three summers. All of them have elements of pure invention.

The Journal series is composed of multiple images joined together. The goal is to give various visual and psychological perspectives to the larger narrative.They often combine elements of painting and printmaking (mostly simple stencils). The images are, for the most part, autobiographical, and I think of them as journal entries.