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Peter Driver

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Multi-disciplinary artist and curator, using painting, woodcut, walking, drawing and banner-making to explore ideas about nature, grief and hope.
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I make things, or make things happen, using printmaking, painting, walking, birding, collaboration and other procedures.  Through this diverse output I attempt to integrate art and life, creating new knowledge through field and studio research. The work includes presenting my experiences of long-distance walks, exposing the ambiguities of text in a woodcut print, and wrestling many variables into abstract paintings: a variety of responses to the wonder and brokenness of living in the world.

My woodcuts might set a short text within a matrix formed of colour-play, geometric sequence, or the natural patterns found within the grain of the woodblocks.  The texts often present a phrase intended to expose a diversity of interpretations and meanings.

The paintings are always abstract and mostly about painting. Colour-interactions, shape, tone, mark and structure combine in a complex set of relationships, over time. Source material can come from a wide range of stimuli: pop music, memory, the natural world, or field research.  Each painting is a struggle between conflicting forces. Paint gets added, pondered, scrapped-off, covered over… it is an iterative, anxious performance. If there are rules, I break them.

As an organiser and collaborator, I also achieve my objectives by making opportunities for others, particularly for young and emerging artists.

 

Hey Ya!

Firth of Fifth

Wood Melick

Quarter Two, 2023

Tree Sparrows

Turtle Doves

Nature

Friends

Wilding the landscape

Untitled study

O let them be left, wildness and wet

Everyone

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