Singing Our Hearts Out
Oil On Canvas
20” x 20”
Framed in a Brushed Silver Frame
framed to 23x23
Could you Stop One Heart From Breaking?
Oil on Canvas
30” x 28”
Framed In Brushed Silver Frame
Framed to 31.5” x 29.5”
Worry About Your Own Heart So Someone Else Will Too
Oil on Canvas
40” x 40”
Framed in Brushed Silver Frame
Framed to 41.5” x 41.5
Oil on Canvas
40” x 40”
Framed in Brushed Silver Frame
Framed to 41.5” x 41.5”
Day after Day
45” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
Framed in a Brushed silver Frame
The Gravity of Feeling
45” x 40”
Oil on canvas
Framed in a brushed silver Frame
The Immense Silence
30” x 51”
Oil on Canvas
unframed
The Architecture of Density
60” x 60”
Oil on Canvas
Unframed
The Fascination in Watching You Exist
65” x 60”
Oil on Canvas
unframed
A Token Of Gratitude
45” x 40”
Oil On Canvas
Unframed
SOLD-Dream Within A Dream
60” x 60”
Oil on Canvas
Unframed
SOLD-Hidden in A Cloud
Oil on Canvas
45” x 40”
Framed in a brushed silver frame
SOLD-Every Inch A Quiet Record
Oil on Canvas
45” x 40”
Framed in brushed silver frame.
SOLD-Even in The Quietest Moments
60” x 54”
Oil on Canvas
Unframed
SOLD-The Short Wavelength of Longing
Oil on Canvas
50” x 50”
Unframed
SOLD-All Hearts Are Broken
26” x 22”
Oil on Canvas
Framed in Brushed Silver Frame
SOLD-Soon Seems Like Such a Long Time From Now
26” x 22”
Oil on Canvas
Framed in a Brushed Silver Frame
SOLD-New Years Day
26” x 22”
Oil on Canvas
Framed in Brushed Silver Frame
SOLD-I Remember the Feeling
45” x 40”
Oil on Canvas
Framed in Brushed Silver Frame
SOLD-Made in the Shade
60” x 55”
Oil on Canvas
SOLD-Memory Braid
60”x55”
Oil on Canvas
Jeff Peters
Jeff Peters
B. 1975
Long Beach CA.
A painter and illustrator, Jeff Peters’ work has been shown nationally for over a decade. His work is in the permanent collections of the Laguna Art Museum and the Pacific Arts Foundation.
Recent exhibitions:
Modernism Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach
Group show at Scape Gallery, Corona del Mar
The Horizontal Line, PLPL, Newport Beach.
Education : Laguna College of Art and Design
Artist Statement:
Living in a house built in 1932 in cannery village and biking to work to a studio in Costa mesa, CA I have had the opportunity to really observe the ocean, paying attention to the extreme high and low tides, the colors certain hours seem to make, the variety amongst what seems like sameness. It is easy to pull the bike over and make a watercolor study or to make written notes of any information that may inform the paintings done in the studio.
I had intended to make a series of more traditional landscape paintings of the unique features of Lido Peninsula, the boat traffic, the buildings and homes on the harbor, the commercial fishing and boat yards, a dwindling
authentic beach culture as it meshes with the transition of extravagance that has an aesthetic all of its own. All of these elements seemed right as content and subject.
As I finished the first few I felt deeply unsatisfied and began to make smaller, looser, more observational studies. In the studio I made paintings based on these studies and over a few weeks I realized that the more interesting aspect was the vast array of subtle color variation, each hour had its own color, each day its own gradient and tonality. This became the content, the changing color of the only perfect horizontal line in nature, the ocean horizon.
The first question I had to answer was, “ What does it mean to be an artist to me?” It is about getting good at listening to yourself, trusting the faint impulses that exist in your own personal AM radio station, turning that static into a clear station, or at least clear enough to have the courage to start.