Peter Holbrook

Click for more

“My paintings are often superficially characterized as “photographic”, but they are very different from the field photographs they come from. Just as fine photography involves much more than aiming a camera and pressing the shutter, fine painting requires an elaborate set of transformations. The result I aim for original and credible, free of sentimentality and cliché, and distinctively my own.”.

-- Peter Holbrook 

Known as one of the foremost painters of the canyons of the Southwest, Peter Holbrook has a unique and unusual method of painting. He portrays light and form with subtle and intricate patterns of color, combining the quality of abstraction with the image of reality. Holbrook’s rather loosely rendered landscapes occupy an area where photography and painting overlap.