Artist Talk pt.1 & pt.2

Art, August Peters, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Mixed media, Painting, Paper Art

August Robin Peters – 2024 – Artist Talk pt.1 – 70x80x2cm
August Robin Peters – 2024 – Artist Talk pt.2 – 70x80x2cm

Both collages works are made of left over cardboard. Pieces of cardboard lying around on the atelier floor when I’m working, I use these to stroke away paint with my brush to clean them. So most of the stains are coincidence, and some are not. Making a composition with these elements makes me take some control of the image. In these two works I combined them with not so coincidental stains and even copied pieces of dessins from fabrics and added them in the image, which give them the needed contrast and depth.

I called them ‘Artist Talk’ because of the different parts that make one image; different points of view but in dialogue with each other.

It’s only mountains (and the sea)

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Contemporary Art, Landscape, Painting

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?

August Robin Peters 2023
August Robin Peters 2023
August Robin Peters 2023
August Robin Peters 2023
Study – It’s only mountains (and the sea) – August Robin Peters – 2023 – acryl on cardboard – 120x120cm

A day at the park

Art, Beeldende Kunst, Dutch Contemporain Artist, Exhibition, installation art, Landscape, Object art, Painting

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

August Robin Peters July 2023
August Robin Peters July 2023
August Robin Peters July 2023 – It’s only mountains – 122x122m acryl on wood
August Robin Peters July 2023
August Robin Peters July 2023
August Robin Peters July 2023
August Robin Peters July 2023
August Robin Peters July 2023
August Robin Peters July 2023