“My art is fixed firmly in the visual world and paint is the medium I have chosen to express myself. Taking Paul Cezanne’s dictum that ‘art is a return to nature, but not to be taken at face value’. Changing light, of beguiling subtlety, falling on objects provides endless and inexhaustible motifs. In the end a painting is paint, not reality. I like paint and I want the end-product to look something like the subject and something like paint. That’s the hook – an art for art’s sake aesthetic.” Peter Smales
“The world is full of beautiful things, often in the most unexpected places”
Perhaps Australia’s only contemporary “true Impressionist”. His painterly world is a highly evolved traditional representational one where the picture’s subject is nature as reality; but pared down to its energetic and colourful essentials.
Peter’s paintings appear deceptively effortless and unlabored, belying a masterful ability to translate visual impressions in an expressionistic manner that can manifest only through diligent and disciplined practice, relying on the elegant simplification and spontaneity of his colourful brushwork and descriptive eye.
Peter Says, “Painting is all about light; the joy of seeing and how to harmonize the subject with pictorial and decorative qualities. It is a continuing process, not so much an assortment of “things” captured; but attempts to re-visit and make more eloquent artistic statements.
Born in London in 1958, Peter Smales began painting in his early teens, and winning prizes, and has been a fulltime professional artist since 1987.
Perhaps Australia’s only contemporary true Impressionist, his painterly world is a highly evolved traditional representational one – where the picture’s subject is nature as reality – but pared down to its energetic and colourful essentials, its expressionistic dynamics, as opposed to external illustrative contours and photographic correctness.
Peter dispenses with surface bravura, developing instead an original take on landscape, departing somewhat from a his early solid foundation in the formalism of Max Meldrum’s tonal realist style of painting, instead relying on the elegant simplification and spontaneity of his colourful brushwork and descriptive eye.
His paintings appear deceptively effortless and unlabored, belying a masterful ability to translate visual impressions in an expressionistic manner that can manifest only through diligent and disciplined practice.
Peter’s economy and grace of his calligraphic brush strokes imbues each picture with an individual fluidity and narrative uncommon in much of contemporary art.
Although inspired by the untrammeled natural world around him, it is the abstract forms and shapes of shadows and sunlight, and the intrinsic unpredictable patterns found in the spatial relationships created by objects interacting in the various moods and atmospheres life that breath fire into his passion for picture making, rather than the objects themselves.
En plein air or working in his studio, Peter sees beauty everywhere. His ‘gift’ for embracing successfully any subject, is to be envied.
Peter holds a Bachelor of Education in Painting (Visual Arts) from Melbourne University, and lectured in painting and drawing there from 1986-88. He also received painterly tuition from Alan Martin, Ron Crawford and Sir William Dargie. In 1982 he participated in a European Study Tour.
He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, won many awards, and is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia, England, America, Japan, and Europe.
彼得·斯马莱斯
“世界充满了美丽的东西， 往往在最意想不到的地方”
也许是澳大利亚当代唯一的”真正的印象派”。他的绘画世界是一个高度演变的传统表现世界，画的主题是自然作为现实：但削减到其充满活力和丰富多彩的必需品。
彼得的画作看似毫不费力，毫不劳作，具有熟练的表达能力，只有勤奋和纪律严明的实践才能体现出来，依靠他色彩缤纷的笔触和描述性眼睛的优雅简化和自发性。
彼得说，”绘画是所有关于光：看到和如何协调的主题与绘画和装饰品质的喜悦。这是一个持续的过程，与其说是捕获的各种”东西”，不如说是各种”东西”的捕获：但试图重访， 并作出更雄辩的艺术陈述。
彼得·斯马莱斯1958年出生于伦敦，十几岁时开始绘画，并获奖，自1987年以来一直担任全职专业艺术家。
也许澳大利亚唯一的当代真正的印象派画家，他的绘画世界是一个高度演变的传统表现世界——画的主题是自然作为现实——但缩小到其充满活力和色彩缤纷的本质，其表现力，而不是外部的插图轮廓和摄影正确性。
彼得摒除了表面的虚张声势，转而发展出一种对风景的独创性，这多少背离了他早期在马克斯·梅尔德鲁姆的色调现实主义绘画风格形式主义中的坚实基础，而是依赖于他色彩缤纷的笔触和描述性眼睛的优雅简化和自发性。
他的画作看似毫不费力，毫不劳作，具有熟练的表达能力，只有勤奋和有纪律的实践才能体现出视觉印象。
彼得的经济和书法笔触的优雅，使每幅画都充满了在当代艺术中罕见的个人流畅性和叙事性。
虽然灵感来自他周围的未融化的自然世界，但它是阴影和阳光的抽象形式和形状，以及物体在各种情绪和氛围中相互作用所创造的空间关系中所创造的内在不可预知的模式，这些都激发了他对制图的热情，而不是物体本身。
在空气中或在他的工作室工作，彼得看到美丽的无处不在。他成功拥抱任何主题的”礼物”令人羡慕。
Peter 拥有墨尔本大学绘画（视觉艺术）教育学士学位，1986-88 年在那里讲授绘画和绘画。他还从艾伦·马丁、罗恩·克劳福德和威廉·达吉爵士那里获得了绘画学费。1982年，他参加了欧洲留学之旅。
他曾多次举办个人和团体展览，获得许多奖项，并在澳大利亚、英国、美国、日本和欧洲的私人和企业收藏中担任代表。
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