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Peter John - 5-a-side
Oil on canvas 145 x 109 x 3.5 cm 2026 I’m drawn to overlooked locations you might pass without noticing; a street light, an illuminated tree or a floodlit pitch. Empty of human presence, the scene sits between use and abandonment, as nature slowly encroaches upon the man-made. My work explores the mediated landscape as a contemporary form of Romanticism, where beauty, nature and the sublime are often encountered through screens and images. Artificial light plays a central role in flattening space and heightening colour, lending the image a constructed and simulated quality.
Oil on canvas 145 x 109 x 3.5 cm 2026 I’m drawn to overlooked locations you might pass without noticing; a street light, an illuminated tree or a floodlit pitch. Empty of human presence, the scene sits between use and abandonment, as nature slowly encroaches upon the man-made. My work explores the mediated landscape as a contemporary form of Romanticism, where beauty, nature and the sublime are often encountered through screens and images. Artificial light plays a central role in flattening space and heightening colour, lending the image a constructed and simulated quality.