Peter Campbell
Western Skies
Oil on Canvas | 46 x 48 inches

Dear friend of AKG,

Peter Campbell is a Durango-based painter who started his artistic career as a photographer, studying at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. The ideas for Campbell’s landscape oil paintings are often sparked by a fleeting glimpse that catches his eye and elicits an intimate and personal reaction to nature. 

The artist works on location, connecting directly with the landscape to bring, as he says, the outside into a painting, imbuing it with elements that make it alive. The challenge lies in transferring that instant response to canvas. Campbell's  landscapes are abstracted views of nature, a perspective informed by his photographic background. By limiting his palette and omitting details, Campbell effectively creates an atmosphere, a mood, sometimes a fantasy which is open to each viewer’s interpretation. His oil paintings reveal moments of light: rivers reflecting the colors of twilight, clouds as canvases to catch the dawn, snowy landscapes giving way to spring. Read insight from Peter Campbell here, and see new works below. 

Warm regards,
Sue Edmonds
Gallery Director
(970) 927-9668

Peter Campbell
Slow Bend
Oil on Canvas | 42 x 44 inches

"Painting the landscape is somewhat an act of devotion. How many times have you seen some play of light on mountains, a river valley or cloud passages and took a photo only to find it didn’t capture what was there? The elements are there, but something is almost always missing. That missing thing is what I try to capture with painting, and I think that is what painting alone can do."

– Peter Campbell

Peter Campbell
Spring Clearing
Oil on Canvas | 38 x 40 inches

Peter Campbell
Sunnyside Mesa
Oil on Canvas | 30 x 40 inches

"I work a lot like an abstract painter or color-field painter where the painting tells me where to go. It is like pulling a mood out of clay, which I find to be the most enjoyable part of painting."

– Peter Campbell

Peter Campbell
River Song
Oil on Canvas | 33 x 30 inches

"The dialogue between artist and canvas is unique for anyone who paints. The world at large, for any artist, has to be internalized and distilled to an essence, and that essence recreated. I paint many plein air pieces that are more literal, because I am capturing what I see in front of me, but large-scale pieces are more personal, painted from memory."

– Peter Campbell
 

Peter Campbell
River Afternoon
Oil on Canvas | 47 x 47 inches

Sean Wallis
Evening Color
Oil on Canvas | 30 x 20 inches

Sarah Lamb
Gardenia on Velvet
Oil on Linen | 7 x 10 inches