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Username: peterworsley
Member Since: May 2009
Member Since: May 2009
Santa Barbara, CA United States
I paint ordinary people doing everyday things at interesting places.
My strongly edited realistic images of the world reflect the emotions and humor of life's interactions.
Strong contrasts and the limited palette of my paintings, draws you in wi...
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| Gender: | Male |
| Artist Statement: | I paint ordinary people doing everyday things at interesting places. My strongly edited realistic images of the world reflect the emotions and humor of life's interactions. Strong contrasts and the limited palette of my paintings, draws you in with their brightness and color. Often with a touch of Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, or David Arsenault, their compelling sense of mood, time, and place describe moments of shared human experience. You, the viewer, are encouraged to engage your own unique thoughts, dreams, feelings, and experiences to complete the pictures in new and unexpected ways. |
| Education: | Born in England, Peter Worsley came to California in 1956, and to Santa Barbara in 1970. His serious work in the visual arts began in 1996, after retiring from some fifty years in industry. Though largely self-taught, he has studied with several world-class artists who teach locally. Always, with a strong desire to include people in his paintings: to him, people add life. After initially choosing to work in watercolor, Peter gradually introduced opaque gouache into his work, producing many gouache paintings over several years. Since then, he has moved to oil on canvas for all of his recent work. Initially working extensively en plein air, he expanded to several years of studio figure studies. Today he works from digital photographs on a computer screen in his own studio. There he integrates and edits multiple images directly on the canvas, to create his picture stories or narrative paintings. Active in the local art community, Worsley is frequently a juror of local art exhibits. He is a Past President of both the Santa Barbara and Goleta Valley Art Association, an associate member of Oil Painters of America, a Board member of the Santa Barbara Studio Artists, and a former Founder and Director of Santa Barbara Visual Arts Alliance. His paintings may be found in local galleries, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and in many private collections. |
| Professional/Teaching Experience: | Tutorials and artistic advise articles are to be found on my website. |
| Exhibitions: | I show extensively in the Greater Santa Barbara area, and elsewhere on the west coast. Visit my website to see where I am currently exhibiting. |
| Artistic Influences: | Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, David Arsenault, Norman Rockwell. |
| Artist Tags: | people interactions, picture stories, ordinary people, narrative paintings, everyday settings, colorful |
