Broomhill Exhibition – Prices from £75 – North Devon Festival

New paintings and old drawings by
Peter Bright

Topiary for Beginners

Category:  Visual Arts & Literature
Starts: Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Ends: Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The bulk of the exhibition are based on drawings and lithographs from 1978. The image above is an image I used frequently during this period, the version above is the Internet Edition of 2006 and is available as a download (see below).


1978: I once had a girlfriend called Anne who wore ‘Charlie’ perfume. Every time we came close I sneezed. This was not conducive to a passionate affair. Her ‘big’ permed hair and ‘page three’ figure was always out of reach, until we discovered I was allergic to her bottled smell….later we discovered I was allergic to latex.

‘Walk Away or Jump’

Painting for exhibition
‘Inspired by a cliff walk with one of Robert Rauschenberg’s assistants in 1978.  The implications of this encounter still roll around in my brain. ‘Walk Away or Jump’. This was possibly one of the major turning points in my life – what did I turn down?  Fame, fortune?’

‘Unfortunately the majority of landscape art fails miserably however, ‘Lake Lucerne: the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen‘ circa 1844 (by Turner) is the ultimate painting of landscape and nature – it tells a massive story with very little content. This has been an important painting for me since the early 1970’s. I have always admired the New York Abstract Expressionists of the mid 20th century but when I first saw this painting by Turner…… my sock were blown off. It is without doubt a clever (maybe unfinished) conceptual landscape painting.’ Read more…
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About peter

'Death by Sushi' Fish can kill me. When I was very small (maybe 3 or 4 years old) my grandfather, who lost the sight of one eye from a bullet fired by a German sniper (fortunately not a very good one) during the Battle of the Somme in World War 1, wiped my face with the corner of his apron, an apron he had used to wipe his filleting knife on. He was a grocery shopkeeper who specialized in wet fish.