Peter Slaney

Trained and worked as a professional photographer for over twenty years, running two successful award winning business. I decided to pick up my lifelong passion for painting and drawing on a more serious level. Which at first started with digital illustrative commissions but then moved over to natural mediums.

Art training has come from a selection of tutors over the years and from my own hard work of study.
My work influences from shadows and memories of hiking and exploring the coastlines and mountains of Scotland, Wales and England. Also, elements of how natural and human driven environmental change impacts the earth's surfaces.

Inspiration and the study of the dark old master landscapes has also had an impact on my style of painting. The work is based both on real and unreal locations but still inspired from my travels.

Sketches and roughs are made on site generally in gouache, watercolour, charcoal or graphite. Which are then used as reference for larger representations.

Larger works in oil are painted on board, panel and a range of papers which may take a number of months to complete.

Paintings and drawings have been exhibited and do sit in private collections commissioned or otherwise around the world.
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