Peter EDWARDS | Artist

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Artist Statement


The contributor is one of those pale, deluded Celts who stumble out of the English mist, rather surprised the world has become so modernized.
He was educated at a school that can only be described as resembling Gormenghast, and on the high, wet plain overlooking Bath where he studied Math and Captain Beefheart.
After a stint at the Gas Board, he stepped off a 747 into the Manhattan winter where he was promptly relieved of his greatcoat by a cheerful chap he met on W 42nd Street.
Falling on hard times, he eked out a miserable living programming mainframes and soon had enough to buy a suit. He moved to Chicago and joined a community theatre in Wilmette. Sadly it was unpaid, but I am told he wowed them in Waukegan, playing Lawyer Cribbs in The Drunkard.
Eventually the real estate boom allowed him to finance a restaurant. This was Tea and Crumpets in Saint Petersburg Beach, Florida. Naturally, he was soon broke and forced to return to coding.
In his spare time he produced a community TV show called Videotropic which featured Third World music and local Native Americans with an attitude. You can see these videos at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/thirdshore/videos

In his spare time, he wrote and self-published Talks to Bears, The Front of Beyond, Clueless in America, Lucid, Gallivants, and Floridisms, all readily available on Amazon, hint, hint.

https://www.amazon.com/P.-R.-Edwards/e/B07MGP9FXS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Biography


The drawing started when I was five and consisted of panoramas of battling stick men. At ten I drew a huge, realistic flea which attracted a lot of attention. Skills with color, however, failed to materialize. As a teen I imitated Trog cartoons, and Mary Quant and copied Escher prints. Then in the first year of college I started drawing what I called "intuitive analogies," which were pictures of internal concepts that incorporated a paradigm of the larger idea it was describing.

It wasn't until 2008 that I realized the drawings could be colorized using computer software. With the help of my mentor, Steve Smith, the famous postage stamp artist, I was able to colorize a few drawings. The results, I think you'll agree, are interesting. There was only one fly in the ointment. "No one will buy them, they're too odd," my wife, Sue said.

Well that may be true. Some people are looking for velveteen images of dogs playing poker. But I hope some people are looking for thought provoking images that give one a little bit of a tingle. Life is a vast, complicated business, with more magic in it we care to admit. There was a DJ at WMNF here in Tampa called Geoff, who used to say, "Every day is a new movie." He was right.

All of these prints were originally black and white "Biro" drawings done in the 1970's. They have been colorized using Adobe CS6 and a Huion graphics tablet, which uses a Bluetooth wand to emulate brush strokes.

The images are stored as TIFS and then printed as a Giclee by a professional print shop, or using an ordinary computer printer, which accounts for the two tiered price range. They are in a numbered, limited edition and signed on the back. Each one has an interesting frame found in a thrift store.

People ask what genre they are, and I guess they fall into the fantasy domain, as there are plenty of faeries and surreal landscapes.

Exhibition History (CV)


2023
SMALL WORKS @ Five Deuces Galleria
Five Deuces Galleria
December 2023
Fantasy
5 Deuces
March 2023
UNREAL SURREAL @ Five Deuces Galleria
Five Deuces Galleria
March 2023
2022
SMALL WORKS @ Five Deuces Galleria
Five Deuces Galleria
December 2022
Retrospectives
CloudFolios
May 2022
New Year / New Works
Five Deuces Galleria
January 2022