Peter Corr has been painting landscapes for more than fifty years, and that kind of dedication leaves its mark — not just on the art, but on the way of seeing that fuels it. His work doesn’t so much depict places as distil them, capturing the underlying structure, the rhythm, and the quality of light. His eye was shaped by time spent living and working across Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, honing his sense of how light and space shift from one region to another. In the end, it was the English woodland that captured him — especially the rhythm of trees: their upright lines, their repetition, the steady spacing between them. Today, he lives and works in Cambridgeshire, painting in oil and cold wax.

Over the past fifty years, painting has spent much of its time defending its place — its relevance, honesty, and connection to reality. Corr has paid close attention to these debates and gets what truly matters, and his work shows it: it doesn’t hide in tradition or chase trends for the sake of novelty. Instead, it sits in that fascinating space where the visible world and the painting's physical presence push and pull against each other in an ongoing, unresolved tension.

In Corr’s work, the forest feels almost musical. His paintings draw the eye sideways across the canvas through repeated vertical lines that seem to stretch beyond its edges. At the same time, they balance two elements: the sense of a real place and the undeniable physicality of the painting itself. The surface—built up, scraped away, and reapplied—never tries to act like a window. It stays an object with its own weight and rules, even as it suggests depth and mood. This meeting point between representation and abstraction is where his art thrives.

His process is about building and uncovering. Layers stack up, then get reworked—scraped, exposed, partly brought back. The paintings carry the marks of their own creation, and that’s important to him. The work isn’t a sleek, quickly finished surface; it’s a record of ongoing engagement with a subject he’s never stopped studying.