Yellow Finch

About Yellow Finch

This contemporary figurative mixed media composition of a bird is by Peter Hoffer.

A masterful Canadian artist, Peter Hoffer’s realistic exquisitely detailed artwork has been exhibited in major cities throughout the world. This is one in a series of ‘portraits’ he has created of birds—the yellow finch is a small bird native to southern Ontario.
Using mixed media on a panel, the yellow feathered bird sits on the branch of a tree in the center of the canvas. The graphic backdrop is in a vivid layered mixture of turquoise, pink, cranberry orange and pink.
Hoffer’s bird portraits are reminiscent of the tradition of 18th and 19th-century artists who often painted prized birds and animals.

"While we admire the beauty of the work, we are aware of a modern artist asking us to consider the process and the act of creation itself.“ Lynn Moore, Art Critic, Montreal Gazette

Peter Hoffer holds an MFA from Concordia University and degrees from the University of Guelph and OCAD University. Hoffer has lived and worked in Toronto, New York City, Paris, Montreal and Berlin. He 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 around the world.