The Crack in Everything 2020 oil on linen 41 x 50cm
In Historia Aqua: A History of Water
13 March - 7 April 2021
Peter James Smith is a celebrated artist, published mathematician, traveller, adventurer and a lover of poets, places and history. His new suite of paintings takes us on an Odyssean maritime adventure from Dusky Bay (Lux Perpetua) to the Southern Ocean (The Last Wave); to the Isles of Scilly (Longitude) and toward to Greece (Now in Search of Odysseus). These paintings show us the power of the sea, the truth of mathematics, the allure of history, and the path of comets.
“When people are at the beach, they always seem to pause to watch the sun going down over the sea, reflecting on the day that has been or the days to come,” says the artist. Perhaps there is a feeling of inner strength, an almost mathematical certainty that we derive from the constancy of the sea and its place in our collective history.
Longitude oil on linen 31 x 121cm Sold
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