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Peter Barker RSMA

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  • 20 x 28 inch oil painting of the golden setting sun on a high horizon, hedgerows in the middle and far distance, and two large barns, with many round bales on a stubble field in the foreground.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of a white-hulled boat on the water, glowing yellow in the late Winter sunshine, with a high horizon.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting, painted en plein air at Grimsby Docks, with various boats in the middle distance, the edge of a building on the right, a lively, cloudy sky, and two fishing boats in the foreground and a figure with orange high viz overall on, walking away from us.
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  • 10 x 14 inch Oil painting, looking straight into the sun, with three dinghies about to lift off the sparkling muddy foreshore as the gentle breakers roll in, with the dark harbour wall on the high horizon.
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  • 10 x 14 oil painting of a bright blue and red-hulled boat in dry dock, sunny blue sky and the snow-capped Cuillin Mountains in the distance.
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  • 10 x 14 oil painting of a sparkling sea , looking into the sunlight, with rocks and a headland on the right and Gorse bushes in the foreground
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  • 22 x 30 inch oil painting of many boats on the water in Mousehole harbour at high tide, with all the stone houses around the harbour wall and figures talking together.
    £3,750.00
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of the freshly harvested cornfield, with a large Oak tree in the middle distance, and distant blue trees and a few houses of Wing in the far distance.
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  • 9x12 inch oil painting of the old stone Bothy in Lyndon, with one window and an old oak door, lit from the sun on the right.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil, painted on site at Renishaw Lake, with lots of greens abounding, trees all around a still lake.
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil, painted on site at Renishaw Hall Garden, with stone statues on stone plinths facing away from the viewer, down towards open countryside beyond
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of narrowboats on the Oxford Canal at Braunston, near Daventry., with a hump-back bridge in the middle distance, trees on the far bank, and overhanging trees on the right where the towpath takes the eye alongside the boats.
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  • 9x 12 inch oil painting of bits and pieces on a potting shed bench at Clumber Park, with a big copper barrel and a brass thingy, with an old window behind, looking out on to the garden behind.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil of the orange sun about to disappear below the horizon, with rolling waves spilling on to the beach, with a couple of headlands on the right.
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  • 12 x 17 inch oil painting of cattle grazing in meadows at Water Newton, above a bend in the river Nene, Autumn trees reflected in the water
    £1,395.00
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  • 6 x 14.5 inch oil of some old boathouses on the far mud bank of the River Esk, sunlight bouncing off the roofs, one boat mooredin the distance and a backdrop of bluish, distant trees.
    £725.00
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil of round bales of straw on a hill sloping down from right to left, with distant trees and some nearer trees in the middle distance.
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  • 12 x 17 inch oil painting of the river Nene between Castor and Water Newton. A sharp Hoar Frost on all the trees and vegetation, with the low sun reflected in the water.
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  • 6 x 8 inch oil of Haymeadows at Wing, looking downhill, with distant blue hills, a mature Oak tree in the left foreground and an open gate beyond.
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  • 12 x 17 inch oil painting of Autumn meadows with sheep and trees, at High Wray in Langdale, the Lake District, with a pocket of mist in the foreground, hovering over the grass.
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of trees beside a track near Wing in Rutland, set agaisnt a brooding sky.
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of the path through Barnsdale Wood, looking into the sunlight, trees appearing dark, with a sparkle of lit vegetation and foliage, with lots of Bluebells abounding.
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of a bend in the river nene, just below the weir near Water Newton, a silvery sharp frost on the trees and vegetation.
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of a track through Great Langdale in the Lake District, with a large Oak tree on the left and distant blueish mountains ahead
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of grey stone and slate cottages below brooding grey mountains at Elterwater in the Lake District, with smoke gently rising from a chimney on the left.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of Bluebells at Barnsdale Wood, painted in a very loose, impressionistic style.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of the setting sun over Rutland Water, painted in a loose, impressionistic style.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of an Oak tree in early spring on the junction of Wing, Glaston and Morcott roads, witha lot of feathery branches and the white signpost on the grass verge in the centre.
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  • 12 x 9 inch oil painting of an ancient Oak tree, painted in a loose, impressionistic style.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of the interior of Lincoln Cathedral, painted on site.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting, done on site on the Chatsworth Estate, with Autumn trees in the distance above the ruffled surface of the river Derwent.
    £625.00
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  • 9 x 12 oil painting of the rising sun above the River Welland at Duddington, painted in a very loose, impressionistic style.
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  • 8 x 12 inch oil painting of a bend on the River Welland near Duddington, snow on the ground, and watery sun just appearing through the clouds.
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  • 7.5 x 10 inch oil painting of a deer hide at the top of a frosty ride through the wood, with an orangey sky.
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  • 7.5 x 10 inch oil painting of a jogger in Bedford Purlieus Wood, with a bright, morning sun just shining through the trees, all heavily coated with a hoar frost.
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  • 7 x 10 inch oil painting of a sharp frost by the River Nene near Water Newton, with large trees on the far bank, reflected in the river, painted inn a loose, impressionistic style.
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  • 7 x 10 inch oil painting of Rutland Water in the frost, with the hambleton peninsula on the far side and the road from Lyndon winding downward in the foreground.
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  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of the sun going down over a lake, painted in a very loose, impressionistic style.
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Peter Barker was born in 1954 in the Oxfordshire market town of Banbury where, as a boy, he spent most of his days immersed in the countryside, fishing and fervently observing wildlife and the beauty of his surroundings. It soon became apparent that he had a natural talent for drawing and painting. This passion was ignited further by a delightful and timeless book by author and artist Bernard Venables, ‘Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing’, and this became Peter’s bible.  From 1972 to 1983 he was side-tracked by a career as a golf professional, but returned to his inevitable vocation, and has now become a renowned and prolific painter of landscapes and wildlife. Peter paints mostly in oils, and occasionally pastels and watercolour, and is especially known for his life-like depiction of water, and ability to dash off astounding portrayals of tree foliage and vegetation with a 1”, common-or-garden decorator’s brush. He has exhibited with the Pastel Society, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists to which he was elected a full Member in 2015, and has won three awards at these prestigious annual exhibitions: the Frank Herring Award at the Pastel Society in 2006, and the Ranelagh Press award and the Stanley Grimm Prize at the ROI in 2009. Opening his own gallery has now given him the opportunity to be an integral part of the journey a painting takes from easel to newly appointed residence!

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