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PETER´S PAINTINGS 2 With some explanations by
Peter
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 The Artist was chosen as the cover art for the first ITL album "The garden of mysteries". I actually made this one in three different versions of which the very first one was a zinc etching and the other two closely related vari- ations in water colors.  The Way to Ratby is one of
several illustrations meant for an unpublished book of the same name
which I wrote between the ages of 12 and 19. You could say that right
from the beginning to the very end it's a homage to Lewis
Carrol´s "Alice in wonderland" and "Through the looking glass",
picking up on all the whimsical nonsense and dreamlike visionary of his
masterpiece. Though in my story there are more animals involved, like
rats, mice, ants and even a talking pile of menu cards!
 In her father's garden was
another book I tried to write after I had completed 'The way to Ratby',
but without much success. It did however give way to a couple of songs
and several illustrations such as this one.
 The Opium Witch is one of my
illustrations from the mid seventies made with a combination of Winsor
& Newton and Schmninke water colours. I initially painted it to
give away to a girlfriend who was dangerously close to falling into
drug abuse but eventually it ended up in my parents home instead.
 Detail from
the same painting where, with a cunning eye, you will notice I never
quite completed it, having
left out the hand of the little girl - maybe so she would never go so
far as to pick those toxic toadstools in front
of her!
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 Baby in a room is me when I was a wee lad of eight months or so, here
filling up this confined bit of space and looking as if I´d
be ever so happy to get out of my cage! For this painting, which was done
using plain and
simple tempera blocks on a piece of paper thick as cardboard, I made
use of two very old photos, one of me the baby and one of the pendulum
clock in the background, which once stood in the living room of my late
grand parents villa.
 Visitor from the woods was intended as a fusion of two worlds where I melded together mythological creatures of the mysterious North along with urban every day life.   Billy Bulb was the
character of a children's book I was working on around 1971, a project
which eventually flaunted but which I am hoping to pick up on and
eventually complete. The story
was based
around a little light bulb boy who was unable to glow and who sub-
sequently
ventured out
into the world asking the sun, the moon, the stars, even the aurora
borealis and the fire flies how they did it, hence hoping for a
solution of some kind. At the end of the story he will have an
encounter with lightning, an experience which can be most
frightening!  Towers in the second version before all the menacing clouds came along. I made three versions of this though these lighthouse like buildings had a habit of popping up a little here and there in those early years.   The Rat was a character of an unpublished novel which I wrote in the 1960s, one which I called "The way to Ratby".  Sunset in the outback was one of many paintings I made back in those happy days of living Down under in sunny Western Australia, which in this case would have been in the rural town of Katanning.  City by night is something I put together quite haphazardly on a piece of cardboard using various kinds of material and utensils. Unintentionally my name is apparent just over the sky line, something I actually discovered for the first time when I had recently captured this image on camera. |
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