Spotlight Magazine

This is a local magazine and they have featured one of my Spatials on their front cover. This is not actually a recent drawing but its colors really suited the magazine. I'm just happy they featured me!

First Place

Delighted to report my First Place win at the Black & White and Shades of Gray want Show at the Art League of Bonita Springs. It was a big show with lots of good competition which made it all the more satisfying.
I just heard that the trendy West Elm store in Coconut Point that they wish to feature me in their local artist series of shows. It will be from 6th to 11th of November with a Meet & Greet evening at 6.30pm on the 7th. will be showing Dizzies and Spatials and some of my latest, which I call African Masks and Sharon calls Peep-Po's! You can perhaps see why.

Illusions

I have just had a most exciting experience in a new gallery on First Street, Fort Myers.
I have 22 of my Spatials and Dizzies in the show which opened on the famous Art Walk
which is always on the first Friday of every month. This gallery has a different approach
to showing art. They made T-shirts of some of my Dizzies and they produced a video
of everything in the show, merging one into the next and accompanied by the pop song
"I'm so Dizzy". It was so entertaining and even more so when they projected the video
across the street at night onto a 3-storey building. It is very exciting to see your work
twenty foot high!

This drawing, ink on clayboard, is called "Great Balls of Fire" and it won second place at
the last Bonita Art League show. As you can see I like titles with humor!
I an currently working on a series based on an African mask I saw recently which reminded
me of my Dizzies in its shape and complexity. I did a black & white version but also a triptich
version shown here.

Sharon loves this one and has it on the kitchen wall. She says these are her "Peepoes"!

Sculpture Sale!

This is my Butternut sculpture "Flow".
Kathleen Bradford, whose gallery has all my sculptures, called me -- "Guess what, Peter, Flo just walked out the door!" I am thinking who the hell is Flo until the penny dropped.
I SOLD it!!!!

First Sale of a Dizzy!

A nice Birthday present last Friday when I won a merit award for this Dizzy.....

and then from the same Bonita Art League Members Show I SOLD this Dizzy!

It's been a busy couple of months.
In addition to my work to be seen in Kathleen Bradford's Gallery on Bonita Beach Road (Dizzies, Spatials and a load of my sculptures, I now have 10 pieces in Skyler Interiors gallery on Fifth Avenue Naples -- a very prestigeous location.
Pop in and see the beautiful furniture, fittings, window blinds and.......my work!

Come and see me at the Co-op!

Seem to be getting busier and busier. I have 3 drawings (spatials) and one sculpture -Touch -in the new Southwest Florida Arts Council Co-op Gallery in Coconut Point mall. Come and find us - next to Panera, so you can grap a cup of coffee as well. This gallery is huge and well lighted and full of paintings, sculpture, jewelry by the area's best artists, many of whom will be familiar to you as showing in the Promenade. Speaking of which we are still there! The new owner is painting and beautifying the place and we artists have been told we will be there, probably through the season.

I am also teaching at the Bonita Art League - a 5 week drawing course in January (starting 10th) and again in February, starting 19th. I show how to draw from your own photos and they can be of anything you suggest - portraits, pet portraits, local scenes, etc. I will demonstrate and then coach you with your own drawing. Very hands-on. Last year everyone said they had a good time and learned a few things and I was pleased with their results.

While still producing my ink and color pencil spatial drawings I have recently gone back to my first love, graphite, and here are some examples taken from photos I took in one of my very favorite places, Santa Fe. What a place for artists, charming town full of great galleries.

I am glad to say that I am very busy with gallery showings at the moment. Went to the reception at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers last week to learn that the All Florida Juried Show had 250 entries form which only 52 were selected to hang. So to have two selected is an achievement.  This show is on display until beginning of August. (Corner of McGregor & Colonial).

I attended this week the opening reception as a Visiting Artist at the Harbour View Gallery at Cape Harbour in Cape Coral. Six of my wood sculptures are on view there again for two months. This one is "Flow" in Butternut.

I still have three sculptures and four Spatials in the Kathleen Bradford Studio/Gallery in Bonita Springs so my display in my studio at the Promenade is a little depleted. I just compelted another cute dog portrait and (at last) a cat portrait -- in fact two together, Molly and Bear which I have just sent off to the Nebraska owners.
Those two Spatials can be seen in the current issue of American Art Collector magazine as part of the Xanadu Gallery (Scottsdale) advertisement of a selection of their artists.