two videos provide a convincing perspective on his states of mind ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qjZ7tlh_nzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjwCxpylfNc
difficult to feel comfortable in peter's company ...
a troubled man haunted by fears and visions and wounded by depression ...
this painting led me to him
for many years he was a highly succesful commercial artist ...
but he came to an unexpected crisis point and needed to change his practice radically ... a shift from great clarity towards multi-layered ambiguity ... possibly / maybe ?
speculation on the motives of such artists isn't always helpful
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after many years, he seems to have gone back to a kind of painted-surface perfectionism ... perhaps an idealized notion of a cosmic perfection ?
