Peter Doig (1959 – )
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WHITE OUT 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6708 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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BLOTTER 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6705 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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CONCRETE CABIN 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6710 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018.
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CANOE-ISLAND 2000 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P7426 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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ROSEDALE HOUSE 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6703 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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SKI JACKET 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6701 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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FROM 'POND LIFE' 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6707 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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BORDER HOUSE 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6706 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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HILL HOUSES 1990-91 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P5866 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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FROM 'POND LIFE' 1996 Peter Doig (1959 – ) P6704 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1959 and spent his childhood in Trinidad and Canada. He attended Wimbledon School of Art, St Martins School of Art and Chelsea School of Art in London before returning to Trinidad where he lives and works. He won the John Moores Painting Prize in 1993 and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1994.
Doig may be considered a landscape painter, responding to his itinerant life by conjuring up the forests and lakes of Montreal and the bright beaches of the Caribbean through vivid tones on large canvases. These landscapes are deceptive however; the impressionistic colours and snowstorm of brushstrokes evade any definite geography and draw on personal snapshots, collective memory and dreams. Bold and affecting, they have much in common, in imagination and scale, with scenes from a movie.
Untitled (Green) (1998)is one of a number of oil on paper studies made by Doig, partially inspired by the concluding moments of the horror film Friday the 13th(dir. Sean S. Cunningham, 1980). Working on a quieter, more intimate scale, Doig produced a series of etchings derived from his own paintings from the period 1992 to early 1995. The artist refers to this printmaking as a process of cataloguing his previous works, creating a layering of image sources, which is typical of his practice. The etchings originate from his paintings, the paintings in turn originate from photographs, mostly taken by artist, who savours the slippage of detail between the three processes.
Glossary
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Oil
A medium in which ground pigments are mixed to produce a paste or liquid that can be applied to a surface by a brush or other tool; the most common oil used by artists is linseed, this can be thinned with turpentine spirit to produce a thinner and more fluid paint. The oil dries with a hard film, and the brightness of the colour is protected. Oil paints are usually opaque and traditionally used on canvas.