My Recent Images

Rimsky's Dream - Scheherazade

The Sea & Sindbad's Ship

LNER

Wastwater in Summer

Great Gable

Biography

A Poetic
Pursuit
Oil paintings by
Peter Brook

I was first given a go with oil paints at about the age of 7 and have used them ever since.

I think it was Ruskin who said that mountains were the beginning and the end of landscape. They certainly got me going!

I find the Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater valleys especially attractive and I like to cycle out to paint "en plein air" whenever I can, in front of the landscape itself. I call the results "oil sketches", and think they can possess subtle colours and a feeling of spontaneity.

The coasts of Britain and Ireland, music and the theatre also get me going, as does the magic and nostalgia of steam railways, a genre of painting I have attempted more recently.

A good selection of paintings may also be viewed in cyberspace!
Visit bbc.co.uk/cumbria (search for “A Poetic Pursuit” ) or
madeincumbria.co.uk (search the gallery for “Symphonie de Couleurs”.) To discuss these or commission any artwork please contact:

0770 467 8042 or pj.brook [at] tiscali [dot] co [dot] uk

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