Lobster and Beetle eating blue crystals

Description

‘Lobster and Beetle eating blue crystals’ is a photograph of the artist’s studio floor, scanned and heavily processed in Photoshop until its original provenance is indistinguishable. Peter wanted to record the collapse of a painting -a failed painting of sorts- as a way to keep an image moving. To execute this it was important for Peter that the source image came from such a relevant and intimate place as his own studio is. The title of this work came from a spontaneous interpretation of the work by Peter’s kids, who were observing him while working. Peter usually starts with a figurative image of the wooden studio floor covered with paint patterns. But then he modifies it into something abstract through layering, sometimes with painting or, in this particular case, with Photoshop. When Peter’s kids titled the work, they were searching for something figurative again (beetles, crystals etc), so the work keeps turning and evolving, like a book with several endings. Or like a ‘painting on the move’, which is the name Peter has devised for this series. ‘Lobster and Beetle eating blue crystals’ is an Archival Pigment Print on 315 gsm Cotton Rag paper. The edition of 15 hand numbered and embossed prints has been approved by the artist and comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.