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PETER´S PAINTINGS 1 With some explanations by
Peter
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 The warrior was
meant as an illustration to one of several stories
which I wrote back in the early seventies.
 Home sweet home was something I did while
attending art school in the mid seventies. What I used here were my
precious, British made Windsor & Newton water colours with a few
tints added using the German equivalent Schminke.
 Deep in the forest
was painted
using water colours and tempera blocks back in 1972. It was like The lord of mushrooms and The Dance of the witches an
illustration meant for a saga which I was writing at the time. I
never completed the story but, nonetheless, the picture hangs on
our livingroom wall for
most of the time as part of my private collection.
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 Towers was
the painting which I intended as the front cover for our first In the
labyrinth album The garden of
mysteries.
However, somewhere in the process it was swapped for the painter
with the funny hat.
 And so by the initiative
of
designer Anna
Spång it ended up in a rather obscure place hidden in the plastic
tray
underneath the disc. I´ve made a total of four or five versions of this picture with the last one never to be completed. Here to the left is what an earlier version looked like while the very first sample was a paper cut out of the tower itself. I´ve always enjoyed drawing buildings and houses, also to fool around with themes a bit like what Esher once did, to mimic those strangely contorted houses and architectural constructions of his.  The Magician is
something I did in 2004 on assignment by Dario Antonetti for Volume 3 in
Oggettivolanti´s Vegetable
man series, which in
fact is a homage to the psychedelic genius
of Syd Barrett. This is the central part of the painting where the
sorcerer offers you to pay attention to his conjuring
tricks.
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  Dance of the witches in the
oldest version from 1972 when I was still using simple water colours
like the ones kids use at school. Like some of the other "gray"
paintings I made during that period, this one was meant as an
illustration for that same, unfinished saga.
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 The witch in the hollow
is yet another one of those paintings I made in those days when I was
totally overwhelmed by Swedish illustrators like John Bauer, Tove
Jansson and
Elsa Beskow.
 The lord of mushrooms was also initially part of that fairy tale story which I didn´t complete. The character itself is a kind of a gnome perching out in the wilderness, luring people to walk deeper into the woods until they lose their way. And beyond any certainty it´s the unsuspecting mushroom pickers who take the biggest risk of ending up in his yarn! 
 Winter landscape was
one of a
series of snowy motives which I
painted for an art exhibition in the early 80s.  Another version of
the same landscape
but in more
of a miniature format.  Fisherman on the ice was
a theme I repeated several times.
First this one...  ....then this one! 
And last but not least, the same guy perched on
just about
the same rock but now in the midst of summer. |
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