PETER HARVEY
WATERCOLORS & OIL PAINTINGS
Finding Venice 2010 - 2011
The body of work I call Finding Venice is just that: my response to the beauties, large and small, the constant changing theme and variations and the myriad influences that make up Venice. The artistic challenge of this wonderful city with it’s stew of impressions, emotions, vistas and histories was to make it come alive in two dimensions in paint; through looking, responding, putting down then repainting and then painting again. I hope the progressive nature and diversity of this exhibition leads the viewer some way into the amazing complexity of the miracle of cities – Venice .

16" x 20" Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

12" x 16" Watercolor on paper

12" x 16" Watercolor on paper

19” x 15” Oil on canvas

20” x 16” Oil on canvas

14” x 10” Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper

Oil on canvas

Ink on paper

Ink on paper

Acrylic

25” x 15” Oil on canvas

20” x 16” Oil on canvas

24” x 19” Oil on canvas

12" x 16" Watercolor

Oil on canvas

13 3/4”x 10” Watercolor on paper

12" x 16" Watercolor on paper

Ink on paper

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Ink on paper

12" x 9" Oil on panel

12" x 16" Watercolor on paper

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Ink on paper

Oil on canvas

Watercolor on paper

Oil on canvas

16”x 22” Oil on canvas

Ink on paper