Van een foto van een werk. Een landschap waar ik vorig jaar zomer doorheen liep in Denemarken, het park rondom het landgoed ‘Augustenborg’. Ik werd getroffen door de werking van de grote bomen en schaduwen rondom het pad dat om de burcht ligt. Ik wilde de foto niet één of één reproduceren maar had wel steeds de impressie in mijn hoofd tijdens het ontstaan van dit werk. Gecombineerd van gevonden stukjes hout en toegevoegde panelen en restmaterialen. Het is een combinatie geworden van abstract, impressionistisch en best figuratief voor mijn doen. Soms kun je niet om een boom heen.
‘Augustenborg’ 22x43x4cm – acryl op hout assemblage – August Robin Peters – 2022Foto: August Robin Peters – Slotpark Augustenborg – 2022
‘Parade’ – Collage on mdf with paper restmaterial, photo paper, cardboard and paint – 31,5×31,5 – August Robin Peters 2022Detail – Parade – August Robin Peters – 2022Detail – Parade – August Robin Peters 2022Detail – Parade – August Robin Peters – 2022
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.
‘Good Intentions’ 30x40cm. Wood, cardboard, polyurethaan, paint. August Robin Peters 11/2021
A deconstruction op a ‘verspakket’ packaging. Through working with packaging boxes for my small compositions, this one came out parallel during the proces of making. A very old and not finished painting on a wooden panel became the background for this non narrative work. it is the first time that I used the packaging on a non dimensional scale, in spite of good intentions the black ‘ribbon’ made it 3-dimension again, because I felt it worked too strong not to be part of it.
Composition Box No.15 August Robin Peters 2020Composition Box No.10 August Robin Peters 2020Composition Box No.25 August Robin Peters 2021Composition Box No 20. August Robin Peters 2021Composition Box No.19. August Robin Peters 2021
I started to make these framed works in the late winter of 2020, when pandemie still ruled the world and initiatives to put artists in the spotlight came across, such as artist support pledge. The plan was simple. Make an artwork to sell and share it on social media by using the hash-tack #artistsupportpledge. Which I did on my instagram account and sold 5 works. The price has to be under 200,- and if you sell for 1000,- in total, you pledge to buy another artwork of one of your colleagues. This was all to support artists in the time when every gallery was closed and there was no other way to exhibit your art. You can all read about it on www.artistsupportpledge.com
The compositions were a real experiment for me to work with. It was such a simple subject by using a packaging box from cardboard, which I unfold to make it as a canvas and use the rest pieces cardboard to make the compositions. Along the way, when im painting and things start to happen, other materials came into the picture. Every work stands on his own by the different appearances, but they come from the same process. That makes me want to continue still, because every little stroke of paint, little added pieces of paper, make such a difference. It changes all the time, till the work is completely balanced for me.
These framed works come in a wooden frame with glare-free glass and are friendly priced 150,- euro (inc. vat) The frame (20x28cm or 21x30cm) comes in natural wood, white or black and is included in the price.
If your interested i’m always happy to answer your questions you might have. Send me an email on august_robin@hotmail.com
A serie of concept painting on cardboard ‘verspakketten’ from a big grocer in the Netherlands. AH! A way to recycle packaging material and to paint on something different than prepared linnen. The concept is that I deconstruct the verspakket box and cut out the four corners which I use as a pattern at random to make an image. it is the combination of the paint and the cardboard that I find very attractive. Often the paint becomes the glue to stick the different collage-like parts to the new surface. And from scratch everything is open for me to decide on. Colour, composition, added materials, strokes fine and rough. The simple effect of paint and colour and the way the elements are making an image.
Verspakket Box Composition no.1/August Robin Peters. 8/2020Verspakket Box Composition no.2/August Robin Peters. 9/2020Verspakket Box Composition no.3/August Robin Peters.9/2020Verspakket Box Composition no.4/August Robin Peters. 9/2020
Impression of the works from August Robin Peters during the exhibition in Gallery Cultura Ede ‘Gevonden werk / Found work’ from 21 Nov – 12 Dec 2020 and from 5 june – 26 june 2021
This work is a my painted version of a photo that was shared in the world by the media at the time a well know maverick was suddenly being hospitalized with a presumably intoxication during the COVID-19 pandemie, somewhat a year ago now. Driven by my heartfelt worries about the subject of the matter and the whole mystery surrounding it, I just had to paint this newsphoto to try to comprehend what was going on here. It took me some time to finish it. Work was made between september 2020 and february 2021.
what is going on? Acryl on paper, 65x50cm. August Robin Peters 2021
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