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Peter Campbell

Artist, Painter | Medium: Oil | Read Artist Bio


Artist Bio:

Peter Campbell (b. 1963) seeks to convey an intimate and personal reaction to nature. He has created landscapes painted in oil of hushed, quiet times of day: dawn, twilight and moonlight. Campbell has learned to tap the spirit world that lingers in all of us. He shapes moods quietly without resorting to sentiment or unnecessary romance. His creativity is stirred by the deep rays of sunsets, cool gray days, late evenings, plowed fields – nature at her most serene. He paints themes with limited color scale, depending upon tonal hues to create delicate and subtle relationships expressed by the changeable moods of light and atmosphere: Campbell seeks to express a personal, suggestive and dreamlike world without presenting the detailed aspects of nature.

Fleeting glimpses are the spark behind many of Campbell’s landscape paintings. Out of the corner of his eye he will see something that catches his fancy and inspires him to paint. The challenge comes, he says, in trying to transfer that instant response to canvas. “You almost have to fight to hold on to that original idea,” he says. “It takes a lot of work to develop that glimpse into the work you’re trying to produce.”

The life of an artist suits Campbell well, and his goals are simple: to continue pursuing his passion for painting. “Once you start down the road of art and painting, it’s a drug,” he says. “I’m not happy if I’m not painting.”

Campbell “finds inspiration in the mountains, desert and ever-changing light.” He says, “I work mainly on location to get a direct connection with the landscape. I believe this gets the ‘outside’ into a painting, giving it elements that make it alive.”

His work has graced the pages of American Artist, Southwest Art, American Art Collector, Western Art Collector, Architectural Digest, International Artist and other publications. His work is in private collections in the US and Europe.


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