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Peter Baldwin graduated from Norwich School of Art in 1962. He studied under Michael Andrews and Jeffrey Camp.
Public Collections: Norwich Castle Museum; Norfolk County Council; North Norfolk District Council; Sainsbury Centre Loan Collection; and Sheringham Museum. Publications Include: The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 Wide Skies - a century of paintings in Norfolk ‘Watermarks’ by Ian Collins - Art in East Anglia Green Pebble’s Art in East Anglia, Resurgence Magazine Norwich Twenty Group - Sixty Years of Art Oil Paintings in Public Ownership - The Public Catalogue Foundation Who’s Who in Art. Awards: Guella Purchase Award, Eastern Open Recent Solo Exhibitions include: Art 18/21, Norwich 2009 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London, 2010 Group Exhibitions include: The Norwich Twenty Group from 1962 to present day Eastern Open - Kings Lynn 2002 - 2005 Affordable Art Fair - London 2000 North Norfolk Exhibition Project 2002 - 2011 Norwich Castle Museum Open Exhibitions 2005 - 2008 Norfolk Contemporary Art Society - The Forum 2008 - 2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions 2007 - 2008 Art of Faith - Sainsbury Centre 2010 Assembly House - Regional Exhibitions 2010 Holt Festival Prize - short listed exhibitions 2013 - 2015, 2019 Castle Museum - 20th Century Norfolk Art - 2015 Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich - A Figurative Presence 2016 New English Art Club - Mall Galleries, London 2016 Royal Society of British Artists 2017 Wells Eastern Region exhibition: Connection 2018 Inheritance Open Exhibition EAAF - Norwich Castle 2018 Views from Inside (with Rob Woods) - Mandell's Gallery 2021 Green and Stone summer exhibition - London 2021 20 Group, Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth, 2023 New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2023, 2024 and 2025 |
Artist Statement:
My paintings convey a strong sense of place, both remembered and observed, primarily of coastal places in Norfolk and Suffolk. The scenes depicted hint at an internal drama where figuration has an enduring and mysterious presence, narratives are implied and symbolism remains cryptic. My work is underpinned with a sense of form and structure, a relationship of parts to form a coherent whole. Old fashioned modernism, innovation within tradition, has been a pervasive aspect in my creative development. Immediate influences in this respect have been my tutors, Michael Andrews and Jeffrey Camp. In literature the existential perambulations of W.G.Sebald are of interest particularly in relation to the interface of land and sea. Virginia Woolf and her internal ruminations have similar interest. Her comment that ‘in 1910 human consciousness changed’ draws attention to the birth of the modernist concept. That which is visible is also given a particular aura when she refers to ‘The thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing’. Peter Baldwin |
