Arcadia - Paradiso Collection Artwork - Limited Edition of 12

Pete Rey is a contemporary British artist, painting with light to produce vibrant, large artworks full of energy and emotion. Rey’s creative journey began at a young age, initially signed to BritArt at the age of 21, selling abstract fine art photography prints. Rey then applied his creative talents to create an international production company, completing a large number of worldwide commissions, from which a love of travel and the world’s beauty in photography was born. Returning to the art scene with a wealth of self-taught production skills and digital imaging expertise, Rey brings a fresh look of abstract artistry to the fine art world. He has always been fascinated by the science behind the known world, studying Human Sciences at University College London in his early twenties, whilst also enjoying a talented grasp of technology. Applying his love of science, technology and creativity to the artistic process, Rey has developed a unique expression of art from a photographic starting point. Using source images from NASA as inspiration for each piece in his collection, ‘Atmosphere’, it not only serves as an artistic exploration of the many spheres between the earth’s surface and the void of space but also as a celebration of the life’s work of Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson CBE FRS, the great grandfather of the artist. Dobson’s work on the atmosphere was instrumental in the discovery of the hole in the Ozone layer and propelled a much greater understanding of the entity as a whole, for which he was awarded a Knighthood from the Queen and a Fellowship from Merton College, Oxford. It is perhaps no accident that his great grandfather’s most famous work and discoveries were founded upon the application of unique photographic processes. To this day, NASA still use his measurement of ozone, The Dobson Unit. For his creations, Rey takes original inspirational source images and transforms them into unique pieces of contemporary art through various digital painting techniques. It is a process he has termed ‘Phototranscendence’, which creates strokes much like those of a painters’ brush, whilst preserving the original colour palette. Inspired by meditational practice where one can often see auras and movements of light, Rey takes us on a journey, to blur the lines between known dimensions, creating unique artworks to represent the transcendence of energy flows into what is termed the ‘Quantum’ and beyond.