Part two of a collage-like work with rest materials and bits and pieces of a older tear-up artwork, combined with found and selected parts, attached on wood and framed.
August Robin Peters – 2025 – Mixed media – 34 x 29 x 2,5 cm.
Collage made of bits and pieces of older work combined with new parts, some used materials are: Vinyl from my earlier atelier floor, tear-out parts of a painting on paper, cut-out piece of a painted canvas, pink wooden part from a children’s toy, found on the street.
Landscape of tolerance originated from the desire to create a spatial representation. In the research, shapes were created that remain abstract but want to be figurative. When is an object accepted as a representation? Shapes are enlarged, stacked and hung loosely in space. The painting on cardboard were created by chance out of left-overs. Organized in a patch work manner and directed into a abstract form. Newspapers are painted; some fragments dissapear, other receive attention. The paper is stacked with news which become part of the layering and can not be seen as neutral anymore. Newspapers are sewn together, the thread makes the construction visable. The stacked boxes balance but take up space and hold their ground. Have we entered the setting of a play, with players about to enter the stage?
It’s 09.34 in the morning on september 14th 2019 and I am looking out of the window of the apartment where I’m staying for a holiday in Venice. In front of me is this colorful patio in the neighbourhood of Dorsoduro.
I always wanted to do something with this picture, I love the big tree in the middle and the warm colors of the old houses with lots of windows and blinds. The purple cloth hanging to dry in the sun as a centre of the composition. The picture had something reassuring and soothing to me, as if it says: It’s ‘going to be a good day and everything is going to be allright. I took the idea to produce a puzzle out of this photo just for fun, to keep me occupied in pandemic times in 2020. After I actually had put together the puzzle, I began to think how I could make an artwork out of this image, using the puzzle pieces.
This is how it became a triptych because I started to separate certain parts en made three individual works out of it. It took me quite a while to get it right, because every work had to have the right amount of puzzle parts and the proportions had to be equally divided, so that each work was interesting enough to look at. I started somewhere in 2021 with three wooden panels but left them for years laying in my atelier and always wanted to finish them. I started to work on them again in september 2024 and here is the result. I worked in my usual way of combining painting with collage, using parts of paper, cardboard and other materials.
‘Headquarters, Collage made of cardboard, newspaper, gobelin, kitchen towel, mdf wood, canvas & paint. 30cm x 30cm, processed between August 2023 and February 2024 August Robin Peters.
Preparing a day at the park…
These are studies for making a big size work that I wanted to realize for my participation at the colorfield performance in the summer of ’23. My goal was to make a colorful minimal work with abstract organic shapes and round forms. This idea of these round dots came from my sketches in which I just started to draw stains with colour until it became a form which satisfied me as such. There is still a lot more of experimenting to do with that. For the painting which I had to realize in one day at the project, it had to be recognizable as a landscape but somewhat in between abstract and figurative. How far can you go with abstraction en what do you accept as a recognizable form?
The day: 15 July 2023
The challenge: create a painting on a wooden panel sized 1.22×1.22m in one day in the open air with provided paint. Wooden panel is screwed onto a frame and is adjusted to personal height.
The setting: the painting is one element of a bigger plan; approximately 500 panels/paintings placed next to each other in an eclips formed shape. An outdoor exhibition during the summer, entry free.
The location: Park Lingzegen, Elst, the Netherlands (1 may till 1 oktober 2023)
The project: The colorfield performance
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.
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.
august robin peters 