Van 25 januari t/m 8 maart 2026 wordt de Wintersalon georganiseerd door Pictura Groningen aan de St.Walburgstraat 1. De expositie met werk van ongeveer 30 kunstenaars is te bezoeken op woensdag t/m zondag van 13.00 tot 17.00. Deze onderstaande twee werken van mij zijn geselecteerd en daar te zien. De expositie is met één week verlengd tot en met 15 maart.
Over the next few months (until May 3, 2026), my work “Tender Weight” will be on display at the MOW Museum in Bellingwolde as part of the exhibition “Loki, Lives and Loves of a Master Painter” (Lodewijk Karel Bruckman 1903-1995).
Along with a display of over 40 works from the MOW Museum’s permanent collection by the magical realist painter Bruckman, 14 interpretations of his work and world, created by 14 selected artists, will also be on display. I drew inspiration from his still life paintings, use of color, and subject matter, which often contain symbolism about life and death, growth and stagnation.
During the creative process, it became increasingly clear to me that there were many similarities between Bruckman’s still lifes and my own work and working method, which I hadn’t initially recognized. This was particularly evident in his use of everyday objects, his creation from nothing, and the surreal quality of his compositions. They have been an inspiration to me. I have taken to heart the motto “From what perishes, something new always arises.”
In my “painting,” I have also literally incorporated the past by working on an old tea towel, which I have had in my possession for a very long time and which eventually ended up in my studio as a paint cloth. Now, it has become the medium for my composition, mixed with new residual materials, such as the melted fruit nets. Brought together, the elements—such as the fruit-like shapes and the wooden frame, the feathers, and personal treasures (spoon and brush)—interpret the works of “Loki,” and it has also become a personal work with my signature.
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.
This abstract artwork almost made itself, the only thing I did was to organize the order. Just like a piece of mosaic. Putting left-over cut-out cardboard strips. Which came from cutting off strips from another older painting on cardboard. By puzzling the pieces afther each other, I could play with the rhythm of the colors and forms/stains and at the same time take control. The image created is still abstract, but to me, it tends to give a little bit of a botanical feel to it, without actually being a figurative image of such.
Impressie van de etalage tijdens de maand november bij de winkel van ‘Studio Boter’ aan de Oude Boteringestraat 5 in Groningen.
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.
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.
august robin peters 