Artist: Peter Nixon
Title: Arcadia
Edition Size: 650
Medium: Serigraph on Paper
Image Size: 24.5" x 33.75"
About the Art: Born in 1956. Early in his career he developed a vision and style of his own. With a background of Medieval and Greco Roman history which he studied while still young and furthered by travels to Italy and Greece, he portrays his homage to the external beauty of woman. Although alluding to myths and fables of previous times, his worksomehow relates directly to us today. Having undergone a formal art training at Bath Academy, where he obtained a BA he began to work in a shared studio where he was able to experiment with etching, lithography and serigraphy, as well as to paint in acrylic and oil. His vision of life gained steady acceptance in European art galleries and by the end of the eighties he was able to have a studio of his own where he now paints his original works. His etching plates and serigraphic stencils he makes at the studio of his printers. Nixon sees himself as part of the symbolist tradition, in that he considers the prime concern of art is, not to depict but to suggest thoughts and feelings by symbols.