Peter Corr is a British landscape painter whose work explores the shifting boundary between abstraction and representation. Working primarily in oil and cold wax, he creates layered surfaces that investigate landscape as a site of memory, erosion, concealment, and material transformation.

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Rather than depicting specific locations, the paintings emerge through processes of accumulation, excavation, removal, and revision. Fragments of terrain, structure, atmosphere, and woodland appear and dissolve within textured surfaces that suggest places remembered rather than directly observed. The work is concerned with ambiguity — with the unstable relationship between what is seen, sensed, obscured, and reconstructed over time.

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Corr’s practice is deeply informed by sustained engagement with landscape, weather systems, geological processes, and the physical behaviour of materials themselves. Scraped passages, buried marks, translucent veils, and disrupted surfaces become part of a visual language that reflects both physical terrain and psychological space. The paintings operate as constructed environments where surface acts simultaneously as image, object, and record of process.

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While rooted in landscape, the work increasingly moves beyond description toward a more open and atmospheric form of spatial experience. Tension between control and accident plays a central role within the studio process, allowing the material qualities of oil, pigment, wax, and texture to shape the development of each painting.

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Peter Corr has exhibited widely in the UK through galleries, art fairs, and selected exhibitions. Alongside his studio practice, he has maintained a long-standing engagement with visual education, writing, and creative dialogue surrounding contemporary landscape painting.