Author: August Peters

Red sky

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Landscape, Mixed media, Painting

A new work combining painting and assemblage. In a collage manner of working the wooden parts make an alternative “frame” as well as an second layer to the whole image. As my works often needs a certain time to come together, maybe interesting to mention is that the base of this painting comes from a painted canvas (dates 2008) in red and yellow stains that I never finished but in this work has found its place. To me the work reflects a dreamy interpretation of roofs and windows in a red sky.

Red skies – Mixed media – 33x47x3cm – August Robin Peters – November 2022
Detail – Red skies – 2022 – August Robin Peters

Augustenburg

Art, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Collage, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Landscape, Mixed media, Object art, Painting, photograpy, Small paintings

From a photo to a artwork. A landscape I walked through last summer when I was in Denmark. It’s the park around the ‘Augustenburg’ estate. I was struck by the effect of the large trees and shadows surrounding the path that surrounds the castle. I didn’t want to reproduce the photo one on one, but I kept an certain impression in my head during the creation of this work. Combined from found pieces of wood and added panels and rest materials. It has become a combination of abstract, a bit impressionistic and best figurative for me. Sometimes you can’t avoid a tree.

‘Augustenborg’ 22x43x4cm – acryl op hout assemblage – August Robin Peters – 2022

Foto: August Robin Peters – Slotpark Augustenborg – 2022

What is your D n a ?

Art, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, installation art, Mixed media, Moderne kunst, Object art, Paper Art
August Robin Peters 2022 – What is your D.N.A. ? – Mixed media

This installation is made of 25 compositions on cardboard boxes, made between 2020 and 2022. The method of making and the ingredients are the same. The outcome is very different and variable. It made me think of the human D.N.A. How we all are made of the same but differ so much from each other.

A framed composition with three boxes

Art, assemblage, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Moderne kunst, Object art, Paper Art
Composition with packaging box No. 31, No. 32 & No. 34 – Cardboard, paint, paper and wood – August Robin Peters – 2020/2022 (This work is sold)

In this work I realized a new composition existing out of individual pieces which are combined together to create a new image. The frame is made of old left-over pieces of wood and combined with new parts.

The frame that is holding the 3 boxes and 1 little one is constructed to accommodate the composition boxes, which are commutable, because you can simply pull them out and change them for another and make your own combination. The shape and design are inspired on fruit and vegetables baskets as you see them presented in markets or grocery stores.

I wanted to emphasize the heritage of the painted boxes which are made of packaging materials coming from the world of consuming.

Detail – Framed composition boxes – August Robin Peters 2022
Detail – Framed comoposotion boxes – August Robin Peters 2022
Detail – Framed composition boxes – August Robin Peters 2022
Framed composition with three boxes 31, 32 & 34 in interior –
August Robn Peters 2022
A new wall for this sold work –
August Robin Peters 2022

Playing with houses

Art, Art on paper, Collage, Contemporary, Painting

Painting on paper – Acryl and collage on heavy paper. 50x65cm. August Robin Peters. February 2022.

During a stay in the early spring of 2021 in Ameland, I made some little drawings of the house I was staying. The holiday house was simple and basically an archetype of what a house is. A space with room for a lot of basic functions. The surroundings are so important when you’re staying on one of these Dutch “waddeneilanden” situated in the north of The Netherlands. It’s almost as if the house is a synonym for the resting mind, so open to everything you see or hear to come in and go out the house, like a breeze, a thought, almost working as a sponge. I tried to captured that feeling in this work. All the windows and see through elements and abstractions make the subject becoming more that just a house in an envirioment. It is a playful way of portraying a house.

Compositions on cardboard boxes series pt.5

Art, Art on paper, Beeldende Kunst, Compositions, Contemporary Art, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Mixed media, Object art, Small paintings
Composition Box No.31. acryl on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2021 (sold/verkocht)
Composition Box no.33. Acryl en canvas on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2022.
Composition Box No 32. Acryl and oil on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2021
Composition Box No 34. Acryl and canvas on cardboard.
August Robin Peters 2022. (sold/verkocht)