A formal sense of geometry, precise composition and a unique tonal quality, typify the garden pictures, landscapes and urban street scenes in the paintings by Peter Boggs.
Deceptively simple treatment capture the emptiness and vacant qualities of once bustling towns in rural Australia, while evoking the universal sense of place.
Similarly in the garden pictures, especially those relating to the Italian gardens of the Il Giardino di Boboli, Valsanzibio, Cetinale and Villa Gamberaia, it is the evocation of the sense of the ‘universal and Arcadian’ qualities found in these gardens, which is the aim; to achieve a sense of the experience of the dream or the imaginings of someone having experienced such a place – if ‘only in their minds eye’.
In a new collection of works, the inherent abstract qualities that can be found in the architecture of lanes and narrow allyways of Venice are explored.
The absence of the human figure, adds an ethereal quality to the subjects, and our attention is drawn to the precise structural composition, carefully observed shadow and pale light.
This strategy also coerces the viewer into an engagement with what is not shown; the implication of a reality separate from that which we initially see.
Although these are paintings of the real and visible world, in the end, the real goal is much more to do with metaphor than truth and actuality; it is a concern for the sense of the metaphysical which lies disguised in the everyday.
Current and Up-coming Exhibitions
Tuesday 8th March - Saturday 2nd April - Philip Bacon Galleries
2 Arthur Street
Fortitude Valley
QLD Australia
