Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a well known painter that creates these scenery pieces that have this abstract style about them. One well known fact about him is the matter of the piece “White Canoe” which sold at Sotheby’s for $11.3 million which was an auction record for a living European artist.

In February 2013, his piece “The Architects Home in The Ravine” sold for £12 million at a London auction.

This piece called “White Creep” was made in 1995/6 and is oil paint on canvas. This is a very interesting piece and one I thought would not possible. To basically paint White Mountains would take some amount of patience and time to get the tone right like here thus making it a very intricate piece of work.

Peaking through sections of the piece you can see the rocks of the mountain region peaking through and creating a cool, cold look that truly resembles a deep snowed in mountain. You get a feeling from a piece like this and thus a piece that makes you feel as well as see is a very successful piece indeed.

Peter has this painting style were he paints things normal, but he adds his own flavor of abstract colours and tones to the pieces that photography could never capture. With this piece you can see a couple of Snowboarders in the bottom of a snowy drift. These feel very out of place within this twilight setting, and this orange feel that blazes across the top of the piece makes it look and feel not like a snowy scene.

But with closer inspections behind the red glow of the tress, you can see breaking through the white chilly mountains that bring the piece into reality and make you under the tones and colours used on the piece.