Paint Swatches
Peter Combe has been experimenting with cut and paste collage works since the mid-nineties when he was Artist in Residence at Xerox Canada. Back then he would use the company's colour-copier equipment to assemble his portraits. Today, his favoured medium is the household paint swatch. Peter selects from the full spectrum of 1,100 colours and hand-punches the chosen swatches into small disks. He then fits these disks into bevel-cut grooves on a specially prepared archival material. He describes the effect as akin a to Pissaro-esque pointillist finish.
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Rumble Eye II
46 x 46cm, Paint Swatches on Board
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Cha Cha
46 x 46cm, Paint Swatches on Board
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Martin
46 x 46cm, Paint Swatches on Board
He says; "There is a magic that occurs, a trick of the eye where colour seems to occupy space – a void – at once ethereal, yet seen from another angle the whole appears as if a ghostly image, veiled in gossamer. It is these characteristics that propel me forward and to continue experimenting with the interplay of colour, light and movement."
Peter was born in Canada but has been based in San Francisco since 2008. His work has been featured in more than 100 shows and art fairs across North America, Europe and the Middle East.
