CONTROL AND CHAOS
A COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS ABOUT PAINTINGS
John Peters

John Peters' current work has evolved primarily from an obsessive response to his medium. What fuels John's spontaneous and instinctive approach to painting is a fascination with liquid colour and a desire to allow complete freedom for natural phenomena whilst, paradoxically, retaining total control of the event.

It is also the event, the act of painting, and the magnification of emotions, the highs and lows that are encountered with in the process that form the content of John Peters' work.

Private view:
Thursday 19th July from 6.30 - 8.30pm
Public exhibition:
20th July - 25th August 2007

The collage elements (elephants) are both an extension and explanation of the work. Expressive of psychological states that refer simultaneously to aspects of self and moments in time. The particular moment, the conception of the painting, being relived and explored over time through figurative abstractions that are painstakingly reworked until an agreement with the painting has been reached.

The oppositional processes that John Peters employs are themselves emphatic of the contradictions that are contained within his work, work that sparks an internal discourse between the Apollonian and Dionysian. Work which he feels is both celebratory and mournful, fuses beauty with the bizarre, brings order to chaos and presents the sublime with the ridiculous in an informed yet idiosyncratic whole whose revisionary/contempory hybrid amalgamate makes reference to, but ultimately resists classification.

Put simply, John Peters makes paintings about painting.

Also showing

Fine art from UEL

Exhibiting in the gallery from July 20th.

A hand picked selection of University of East London fine arts graduates.

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