What is the main purpose of painting?
I make art because it is a natural thing for me to do. To create pictures is to be involved in a strange, wonderful and mysterious...
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PETER CORR
Oil & Cold Wax Painting Techniques
PeterCorr@hotmail.com
+44 (0)1353 610 280
Cambridgeshire, England
Contemporary Art Blog
peter corr
- Nov 29, 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 22, 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 15, 2021
The space between painting and sculpture
Creating a sense of the third dimension in painting is a challenge, but there are different ways to render lo depth and recession....
peter corr
- Nov 12, 2021
Schizophrenia and painting "time was not passing...it was turning in a circle."
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' 150 x 100 cm Oil on Canvas
peter corr
- Nov 6, 2021
Contemporary Landscape Painting: Recognising and overcoming self-delusion
A landscape painting of Thetford Forest in oil and cold wax medium
peter corr
- Oct 20, 2021
Studio Work in Development: Creating Texture & Tactile Surfaces
' The Archaeology of Thought' Oil and cold wax 60 x 60 cm
peter corr
- Oct 11, 2021
My new artwork at the Battersea Art Fair 21st - 24th October 2021
This is a 100 x 100 cm mixed media abstract painting in oil and cold wax medium. It is inspired by the marshland, dykes, rivers and...
peter corr
- Oct 10, 2021
'Embarkation Point' New work on show at the Battersea Art Fair 21st - 24th October 2021
This is a 60 x 60 cm mixed media abstract painting based on the Fenland landscape. For me, the land of the Cambridgeshire Fens is a 'will...
peter corr
- Oct 1, 2021
Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting: 'White Water' by Peter Corr
A Minimalist abstract painting based on water and clouds
peter corr
- Sep 26, 2021
'Borderlands' A New Abstract Landscape Painting on show at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair
Borderlands. An abstract Landscape painting by Peter Corr. See his work at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair 21 - 24 October 21
peter corr
- Sep 20, 2021
'Westmoor' 100 x 150 cm A Fenland Landscape Painting in Acrylic
A Fenland Landscape Painting by Peter Corr
peter corr
- Sep 11, 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 7, 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 5, 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
- Aug 31, 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 24, 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 22, 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
- Jul 30, 2021
‘High White Fen’ A Landscape painting of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands
‘High White Fen’ 80 x 40 on Cradled Board (Detail ‘High White Fen’) Detail ‘ High White Fen’ If someone told you that a painting of a...
peter corr
- Jul 26, 2021
A landscape painting of Devil’s Dyke. Anglo Saxon Earthwork in Cambridgeshire.
‘Devil’s Dyke’ Acrylic on Canvas 100 x 130 x 4 cm Running along the top of Devil’s Dyke is a narrow causeway. At this time of year it is...
peter corr
- Jul 19, 2021
A Fenland Landscape in Cambridgeshire. ‘Westmoor’ From Pymoor towards Little Downham.
‘Westmoor’ 100 x 150 x 4cm ‘Westmoor’ (Detail) The Fens around Ely come to life with colour at this time of year. The intense yellow of...
peter corr
- Jul 10, 2021
Cambridge Open Studios – open this weekend
July 10 th – July 11th 11 am to 6pm Come and visit my working studio in Ely this weekend. I am studio 120 in the Cambridge Open Studios...
peter corr
- Jun 29, 2021
Beyond The Image Gallery: ‘Fenland’ Exhibition
Just finished setting up my ‘Fenland’ black and white print series at the ‘Beyond the Image’ photographers gallery in Thornham Magna,...
peter corr
- May 25, 2021
Fields, Rivers and Dreams. Flying high above the landscape.
This is a painting in acrylic and mixed media. It is an imaginative interpretation of the Cambridgeshire Fenland. A patchwork quilt of...
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