Peter Brooke

Peter Brooke has exhibited his landscape-based paintings regularly for the past fifteen years in Boston, in New York, and in many other sites throughout New England and along the East Coast. During this time the work has evolved considerably, from depictions of dark, foreboding Delaware wetlands to vaulting atmospheres gathering above the Irish coast to inventions, in the vocabulary of the Vermont hill country, in which trees appear to be forming out of thin air or dissolving out of existence.

Brooke extends his interest in images of the natural world as a means for exploring the subtle and fleeting nature of human experience.

Brooke's paintings have been shown recently at the List Gallery, Swarthmore College; the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; and the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York.

“I started this group of paintings from a place of reverence: reverence for the memory of a landscape experienced, a landscape lost and finally a landscape recreated. Memory is the vehicle by which my work is best created. This past year, my daily practice in the studio transformed into a kind of daily devotion: a spiritual devotion with an earthly core. My devotions are not to a god or entity but rather they form around a landscape found within.” - Peter Brooke