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Peter Keizer's world is one of childhood memories, like a sunny afternoon in a field of flowers, like a dog running with delight. "Lie down on the grass and look up at the trees: if you have a young mind, you'll see what I've painted," says the Dutch artist, who graduated from the Rijksakademie and the Royal College of Arts over thirty years ago. In his unique work, Peter Keizer uses oil paint directly from the tube, giving a sculptural aspect to his paintings and a pictorial aspect to his sculptures. For his solo show at the gallery, we are very pleased to be exhibiting his recent work, in which nature tends towards abstraction, as well as older works with a naïve, figurative spirit.
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What do you wish to share through your work?
I am looking for an approximate figuration, to suggest rather than to tell. Faces are an excuse for this formal work. For me, the concept appears by itself when the painting has a mirror effect on the viewer. -
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Peter KeizerAll the way?, 2003Oil on canvas135 x 135 cm (53 x 53 in)
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Peter Keizer, From the fields, 2023
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Peter KeizerGoing Dutch, 2018Oil on canvas70 x 70 cm (35 x 35 in)
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Peter KeizerHigh and low, 2023Oil on canvas105 x 105 cm (41 x 41 in)
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Peter KeizerLet it snow, 2004Oil on canvas40 x 50 cm (15 x 20 in)
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Peter KeizerLife on large feet, 2022Ceramic, oil paint, goldleaf on wooden plinth80 x 50 x 57 cm (31 x 19.6 x 22 in)
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Peter KeizerLook and look again, 2022Oil on canvas170 x 170 cm (67 x 67 in)
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Peter KeizerLoose and tight, 2022Oil on canvas54 x 48 cm (21 x 19 in)
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Peter KeizerOn top of the world, 2004Oil on canvas90 x 90 cm (35 x 35 in)
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Peter KeizerOne on two, A & B, 2004Oil on canvas90 x 90 cm (x2) (35 x 35 in (x2))
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Peter Keizer, Passing the treeline, 2023
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Peter Keizer, Pop-up flowers, 2019
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Peter Keizer, Rustling Branches, 2023
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Peter KeizerShort Light, 2022Oil on canvas54 x 48 cm (21 x 19 in)
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Peter Keizer, To seek a view, 2003
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Peter Keizer, Transport, 2003
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