About Circe #2
A dense tangle of foliage in the foreground of this painting highlighted with drips of red and white acrylic merges with a leafy, summer tree. The tree rises into a moody sky of emerald, steel blue, green and turquoise. The horizon is marked by a blur of atmospheric moss green.The artist's skilled rendering reminiscent of the landscapes of Lorraine or Constable is also scarified and then finished with a layer of resin, a practice of the 18th and 19th Parisien Salons. Not tied to place or time, the painting that is now more object d'art than mimetic landscape evokes nostalgia for classical, romantic forms and periods.
Peter Hoffer (b. Brantford, ON 1965) holds an MFA. from Concordia University and degrees from the University of Guelph and the Ontario College of Art. He has lived and worked in Toronto, New York City, and Paris and now divides his time between Montreal and Berlin. Hoffer has exhibited widely at art fairs in Basel, Toronto, New York, Stockholm, London, Milan, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. His paintings are held in many private, corporate and public collections including the Musèe des Beaux-Arts, the Musèe du Quèbec and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
