Peter Acheson, Slow Rain, 2012, acrylic with foil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches (courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects)
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Peter Acheson.
Speaking about the influence of the rural landscape around his studio on his work, Acheson comments: "Nature doesn't put the details in, the details are there. They come out - at any scale... Then you step back and it's all rhthymically, organically whole... I began to amplify that... if the painting is working there's going to be plenty of detail and that organic wholeness... The green world doens't give a damn whether I like Mondrian or not, or whether I'm hooking something up between Mondrian, Miro, and formalist painting... I'm going to really try to find a union between where I am, the way it's working on me spiritually, and my studio work."
