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PETER HARPER: the calm voice of nature
"From abstract art which he practised for around fifteen years, Peter Harper has retained a need for synthesis. The vast perspectives of his landscapes evoke the serenity and the peaceful joy of Nature as she really is and these he expresses with a fine sensitivity.
Peter Harper divides his time between England and France, discovering in each of these countries a different music, a different colour range and a different atmosphere which he conveys with extreme accuracy. With a multiplicity of lively touches, his brush modulates the subtle tones of his personal palette where bluish mauves and warm ochres dominate but are also highly modified. These skilfully convey the shimmering of the countryside under the full summer sun or the subtle quivering of a lake at sunset (actually sunrise adds Peter).
Peter Harper?s work is tinged with romanticism and possesses the velvet softness and the charm of pastels. In fact, the artist often uses these for the original sketch of the subject and afterwards carries it out in oils. What is predominant in his well organised but lively compositions is the indisputable poetry of nature."
Translation of the article in the special edition of Univers des Arts :
LES ARTISTES ET LEUR ATELIER
