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Peter Barker RSMA

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  • 10 x 14 inch oil of an ancient oak tree in Bradgate Park, set on the right foreground of the painting, with rocks to its right and in the distance, Lady Jane Grey's ruined residence.
    £625.00
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  • 14 x 20 inch oil painting of as the title says, working boats moored on the glistening mud, looking into the sunlight, with ropes in all directions.
    £2,150.00
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  • 17 x 23 inch oil painting of various boats in the middle distance, moored on the hard surface of Brancaster Staithe harbour, looking directly into the sunlight on a bright Winter's day, with the mud and stones glistening in the intense light.
    £2,650.00
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  • Large 22 x 30 inch oil painting of the inner harbour at Brancaster Staithe, looking into the afternoon sunlight, with the upright wooden pilings leading the eye to the lookout at the back.
    £3,250.00
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  • 13 x 19 inch Pastel painting, depicting the river Welland calmly moving from right foreground to left midground, with vegetation in left foreground, several trees above far bank, with sheep grazing in the blue distance.
    £1,250.00
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil of orange roses, growing wild with foliage and 6 blooms against a misty backdrop
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of the interior of Lincoln Cathedral, painted on site.
    £750.00
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  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of Pine trees at Barnsdale Wood, looking straight into the sunlight, with bluebells beneath.
    £495.00
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  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of a curling path at wakerley Wood, with Bluebells abounding on both sides.
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  • 9.5 x 13.25 inch oil painting of mature trees with bluebells and a wood-pile
    £975.00
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  • 12 x 17 inch oil painting depicting Barnsdale wood with a carpet of Bluebells, a sloping horizon and two Silver Birch trees in the foreground.
    £1,495.00
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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.
    £1,095.00
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  • 12 x 17 inch oil painting of the River nene, with trees in the distance and a bank of trees above the far bank, and grasses and vegetation in the foreground, with calm reflections in the water.
    £1,495.00
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil of Padley gorge in the Derbyshire Peak Ditrict, with lots of rocks and a tangle of trees and branches.
    £750.00
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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.
    £695.00
    £695.00
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  • 10 x 14 inch painting of a lane leading to some barns, each verge adorned with Cow Parsley, and mature Oak trees in the far verge and a bare Ash tree on the left verge.
    £995.00
    £995.00
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  • Small square oil painting in a black, floating frame, depicting a Dandelion flower and a Dandelion Clock, with a Cowslip, Grape Hyacinth and Forget-Me-Nots in a little clay pot with a bluish background and an ochrey foreground.
    £395.00
    £395.00
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of a white-painted farmhouse on a hill, with a stone barn alongside it, with a track leading through rough grassland up to it. Fresh washing is on the line.
    £895.00
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  • A small 6 x 8 inch oil of a barn on a hill, lit on its forward-facing long side, the right-hand end in shadow, several mature trees to the left and behind the barn, with a track running up yo it from the right foreground
    £495.00
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil of a windswept, rainy day fropm the woods behind the Longshaw Estate house, with a large Sycamore tree in left foreground, with a glimpse of the building in the background. and a few Beech saplings with their last leaves from Winter providing a warm colour against the greys.
    £595.00
    £595.00
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  • Small 6 x 8 inch oil of the river Nene at Castor, painted loosely, with distant trees, bank of nearer trees on the left and frosted grass, with reflections of the trees and clear sky in the water
    £395.00
    £395.00
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  • Moor Lane from North Luffenham looking into the sunlight with an intensely lit barn roof and winter trees, by Peter Barker
    £550.00
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  • Thickly painted small 6 x 8 inch oil of poppies and mayweed in the foreground on the edge of a cornfield, with hazy, distant fields
    £495.00
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of boats at Porlock Weir, with a barn and the harbour wall on left, with boats arranged around the foreground and middle-distance. Sunlit mudbank from the bright sunlight from our left and behind. Framed with a wide plain cream inner slip frasme and a thin, charcoal outer moulding.
    £1,150.00
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  • Painting of the head of a yellow rose, sitting in water in a cabbage-leaf dish on a white cloth and a dark, blueish background
    £395.00
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  • 14 x 20 inch oil of a herd of Herdwick sheep on the fells by Thirlmere, looking into the sunlight, mountains in the distance blue/grey.
    £1,950.00
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  • Small oil painting of trees by a stream bottom right of picture, one tree in the middle distance, a bright low sun piercing through the trees, with a light frost on the ground.
    £475.00
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  • 10 x 17 inch oil painting of a stormy sky at Morston in Norfolk, with several sunlit boats in the foreground, and a crowd ready to board a boat taking folks out to see the Seals.
    £1,250.00
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  • Two boats on the mud at the Norfolk harbour, with a greyish sky and three guls on the wing.
    £750.00
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  • Small painting of the river welland on a bend at Harringworth, with loosely painted backdrop of trees, reflected in the fast-moving water.
    £625.00
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  • Small oil of random brush and thick palette knife marks.
    £100.00
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  • Small oil of two white roses set against a dark background with a lighter blue upper backdrop.
    £395.00
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  • Loosely described painting of a wildflower meadow, with several mauve Field Scabious, white Oxeye Daisies, purple Knapweed and yellow Yellow Loosestrife.
    £350.00
    £350.00
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  • Wintry painting of a bend in the River Welland at Uffington near Stamford. Some frost on the far bank and the right foreground, with a streak of sunlight lighting up the water from a gap in the hedgerow.
    £595.00
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of haystacks in a meadow, with trees in the background, ever bluer up to the horizon on the hill where Collyweston Church is on the left side of the skyline, with the sun breaking through a cloud.
    £1,095.00
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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 large fan 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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