Posts tagged "peter"
PETER DOIG FEVER

PETER DOIG FEVER

  My first contact with Peter Doig’s painting was a picture of Pond Life (1993) in Modern Painters magazine not that long after it was created. I was strangely attracted to the wintery feel of the naïve image and its scratchy surface. The way it mimics the marks made by ice skates on the frozen...
PETER DOIG, THE MAN WHO WAS ALLOWED TO PAINT

PETER DOIG, THE MAN WHO WAS ALLOWED TO PAINT

    Thirteen years ago exactly I was in the last days of my masters degree in London. One of my course colleagues and I had a joint exhibition project we were trying to find a venue for and were on the phone to a guy in charge of a space we were interested in....
ARTIST STUDIO: PETER DOIG

ARTIST STUDIO: PETER DOIG

      Peter Doig’s studio looks surprisingly unpretentious and down to earth for such a successful artist; just an empty room with high ceilings and plenty of wall space. Your work selling for astronomical prices, living in Trinidad and having nothing to do other than paint in the studio in shorts and a t-shirt...