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Exploring the Fusion of Tradition and Contemporary: Landscape Painters - Gold Enamel and Gravity
Using gravity and motion as his tools, Jackson Pollock, also known as 'Jack the Dripper', created a new form of dynamic, expressive and...
peter corr
Jan 30, 2024


Mastering Cold Wax Painting: Tips for Adding Intricate Detail
As an artist, it is important to consider the appropriate level of detail for a particular work. Although including intricate fine detail ca
peter corr
Jan 23, 2024


How artists can learn from Jeff Beck's guitar playing? Try jamming with a blackbird!
How to be creative with oil paint and cold wax. Using Jeff Becks guitar playing for inspiration
peter corr
Jan 31, 2023


See my New Paintings at The Edinburgh Art Fair 2022, Thursday 17th - Sunday 20th November 2022.
This November I am delighted to be showing new work with the Darryl Nantais Gallery at the Edinburgh Art Fair. The EAF is an...
peter corr
Sep 21, 2022


The beauty of imperfection in landscape paintings.
The more I paint images of the forest, the more I see forests and trees as a cypher, a kind of encoding, a representation of something...
peter corr
Jul 30, 2022


Who owns England? Painting a Stolen View
Inspiration and Meaning Behind the Painting Artist Residency - Little Van Gogh View Painting in Home Interior Who owns England? -...
peter corr
Mar 11, 2022


Painting the Fenlands - Original Artwork 'Between Worlds' Painted by Peter Corr
Damien Hirst used formaldehyde; he would have been better served by an eco-friendly peat bog. 'Between Worlds' abstract Fenland painting..
peter corr
Dec 18, 2021


Brian Cox and the rediscovery of why trees and forests have been a key theme in my work
Oil and Cold ax painting of a forest 100 x 150 cm on canvas
peter corr
Dec 9, 2021


Themes in painting
This is an oil painting titled 'Archaeology of Thought' and it has been created on a cradled wooden board using cold wax medium. The cold...
peter corr
Nov 29, 2021


Painting with your iPhone or iPad?
You can apply paint with just about anything to hand, literally anything that will hold paint, but within reason of course. On Sky Arts...
peter corr
Nov 22, 2021


Contemporary Landscape Painting: Recognising and overcoming self-delusion
A landscape painting of Thetford Forest in oil and cold wax medium
peter corr
Nov 6, 2021


'Red River' 100 x 70 cm on Canvas. A Fenland Landscape Painting in Crimson Lake
Red embodies an emotional power like no other colour and the associations for each individual are almost limitless. The materials used in th
peter corr
Sep 11, 2021


Painting with cold wax and enamels. 'The Gilded Age' 100 x 100 cm on Canvas.
This is a multi layered mixed media oil painting on a high quality canvas frame. This painting represents a development of my New Forest...
peter corr
Sep 7, 2021


Fenland abstract painting - 'Material Culture' by Peter Corr
I have arrived at an interpretation of the Fenlands through working with materials and actually living here and experiencing the...
peter corr
Sep 5, 2021


A landscape painting of the Cambridgeshire Fenland 'Ersatz Landen' by Peter Corr
A landscape painting of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands by the artist Peter Corr
peter corr
Aug 31, 2021


Creating Surface Texture in a Landscape Painting
The creation of texture in my paintings is a critical component of the work and I strive to achieve a rich and tactile surface. This is a...
peter corr
Aug 24, 2021


A Portrait of the Cambridgeshire Artist Peter Corr
You don't have to go into exile to become an artist as James Joyce suggested in his novel, and nor will you remain a young man forever....
peter corr
Aug 22, 2021
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