Peter Cox – Spanish Flavour
6th April to 30th April 2010
Open eve 6th April 2010
Peter presents village scenes of Ojen in Sierra for his first major solo exhibition. Using acrylic Peter has drawn upon the Spanish style of painting using bold black line to create a distinct Spanish Flavour.
A cataract operation about 8 yrs ago opened a bright shiny world of colour and inspired Peter to try throwing colours at a variety of surfaces. Acrylic paint seemed ideal for the job and he has stayed with it since.
Peter has taken a variety of courses with adult education centres which have generally been very helpful despite an occasional mild bias against acrylics.
He is drawn to strong bright colours and bold shapes and enjoys works by the likes of Rouault and takes inspiration from the magical qualities of past ’masters’ Schiele and Modigliani
This is his first solo exhibition although he has exhibited the occasional painting locally with the Widmore Road centre and also with Bromley Arts Society and more recently at the Mall Galleries in London.
I have painted outdoors with the U3A, but this was fine weather painting only. The town scenes in the exhibition were painted in the village of Ojen in the Sierra above Marbella during a painting holiday. Over the week we were expected to complete 9 paintings in two and a half hour sessions and there were some hard times holding down the easel in the end of summer gusts with one hand whilst painting frantically with the other; the results are for your enjoyment. Peter Cox