Peter Matthews

Pacific coast of Peru and the Atlantic coast of England

2021 - 2022

These paintings were produced after a six month period of time painting on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England in the autumn of 2021 followed by two months painting along the Pacific coast of Peru in early 2022.

A film, below, documents the journeying with the paintings along the Pacific coast of Peru and the Atlantic coast of England. Shot entirely by myself, the film explores ongoing enquiries and pursuits of following and pursuing the sublime, the journeying from place to place, time through space, space through experience and essentially the lived and spiritual experience of looking for, finding, revealing and working out each paintings along the shores of the cosmos and frontiers of the known and unknown, the visible and the metaphysical, the here and the gone, the there and the passing.

 
 

Installation views of selected paintings at Shape Shifter, a solo exhibition at Beers London below. Press release for the exhibition available here.

Photography by Daman Griffiths.