Category Archives: Commissions

An Exmoor landscape I painted a few years ago. #painting #landscape

Oil paint and household paint on board

I went to Paignton to visit my old mate Garry – above my bed was an Exmoor landscape I painted a few years ago.

My original idea for producing a series of Landscapes was to follow the Monet concept and paint the vista at a given time (so the light, shadows etc. are time specific) – I changed my mind and gave myself a time limit of 90 minutes to complete the six landscapes indoors.

The image above was from another series I did – after the exhibition Napalm Exmoor National Park.

Commercial oil based paints mixed with animal fat – In private collection

This painting was painted around 2002 / 03 by Peter Bright

I hadn’t seen this painting for nearly 10 years – until yesterday…

Prediction = the aesthetics of the system + the aesthetics of failure = Prediction

Materials

Organic: Commercial oil based paints mixed with animal fat and traditional oil paints. Emulsion paints mixed with traditional acrylic/watercolour/gouache paints

Synthetic: Commercial and domestic self-adhesive vinyl tape, cut with a commercial computer based design/cutting program, using Signlab v.4.95 software package.

Title: ‘Self Portrait in Red’

The image above is a proposal for a painting whose width is 20 metres. Costs to produce approximately £10,000 to £12,500.

I would find it very easy not to produce any visual work. The aesthetics of painting, the total confusion that it is still in, has devalued this important medium. It is no longer acceptable to follow Duchampian traditions and say that context is a primary factor. To claim something is art is simply not good enough. Duchamp said that a painting/sculpture died after about 40 or 50 years. After that they become Art History. What will historians be saying in 40 or 50 years time? Read more…

I was using vinyl, a material I have used commercially, as my preferred medium. The “plasticness” of commercial vinyl tapes, their tactile and glossy qualities make them vibrant and alive; when juxtaposed against natural materials or organic shapes and colors they become a contradiction, a complement, more intense and more synthetic……which is similar to Frank Stella’s work during the 1980’s 4 . I carried out experiments with this vinyl material; I have cut and slashed it to destruction, to gain a better understanding of the inherent stability of this medium. I have rejected the possibilities of cutting out images and shapes by hand…..the aesthetics of the system was more important.

Another commision

I have been commissioned to paint another pheasant picture. I did this using the same drawing as the previous one but did not refer to my original painting. The composition is the same but they have turned out very different. Previous commission

Below is the previous version which was done on paper and the one above is on canvas.

One of the paintings sold

Working sketch for 'Landscape from a Train Window' This painting sold at Broomhill Art Hotel in North Devon. I haven’t got a photograph of the actual finished product, this one was taken as I was working on it.

‘Landscape from a Train Window’

Landscapes that are seen at speed, blurred, undefined, with a static, pinpoint horizon are better than watching TV.

In many respects transferring theses visual clues into (in my case) paint gives a prompt, a reminder of the general feel of the landscape… an estimate.