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Peter Barker RSMA

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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181 products
  • 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
    £1,150.00
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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.
    £895.00
    £895.00
    SOLD
  • 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
    £475.00
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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
    £495.00
    SOLD
  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of a curling path at wakerley Wood, with Bluebells abounding on both sides.
    £495.00
    £495.00
    SOLD
  • £525.00
    £525.00
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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
    £625.00
    SOLD
  • 10 x 14 inch oil of Wells in Norfolk, with the iconic gantry and several other buildings and various boats on the mud at low tide.
    £1,150.00
    £1,150.00
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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.
    £795.00
    £795.00
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  • oil painting of Pinfold Lane in South Luffenham, looking uphill to a group of cottages with their lights on, and glowing street lamps in the low light of dusk, with snow on the roofs and on the hedgerows.
    £725.00
    £725.00
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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
    £595.00
    SOLD
  • 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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  • 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
    £895.00
    SOLD
  • 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
    £2,150.00
    SOLD
  • £695.00
    £695.00
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  • £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
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  • 6.25 x 9.25 inch oil of Oak trees by the road from Wing to Lyndon in full Autumn garb, with heavily textured oil paint, used with a palette knife.
    £525.00
    £525.00
    SOLD
  • 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
    £1,495.00
    SOLD
  • £1,950.00
    £1,950.00
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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
    SOLD
  • 7 x 9 inch oil painting, of snow on the banks of the River Welland, with a backdrop of blueish trees, with larger trees in the middle distance and left foreground, painted in a looser style than Peter usually does, strong reflections in the water.
    £595.00
    £595.00
    SOLD
  • 10 x 14 inch oil of two large Autumn trees on the left middle distance, one human walking and several sheep, a hill rising up to blue distant trees and a lively sky.
    £1,125.00
    £1,125.00
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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.
    £395.00
    £395.00
    £625.00
    SOLD
  • Small oil of two white roses set against a dark background with a lighter blue upper backdrop.
    £395.00
    £395.00
    SOLD
  • 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
    £1,095.00
    SOLD
  • 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
    £395.00
    SOLD
  • Small oil of random brush and thick palette knife marks.
    £100.00
    £100.00
    SOLD
  • Small woodland landscape with group of Beech trees and a carpet of leaves, with distant blue trees in the background
    £395.00
    £395.00
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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
    £750.00
    SOLD
  • 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
    SOLD
  • 6 x 8 inch oil of a track through Birches and undergrowth, with blue mountains in the distance and a bright sunlshine breaking through the clouds, heavily textured paint throughout.
    £295.00
    £295.00
    SOLD
  • £750.00
    £750.00
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  • A 9 x 12 inch oil painting of the River Derwent at Ilam Park, with lots of trees in full Spring green leaf, trees in the right foreground and lots of reflections in the clear water, and a single figure walking towards us in the filed in the middle distance.
    £750.00
    £750.00
    SOLD
  • Oil landscape of the lake at Clumber Park, painted on site looking straight into the sun, so distant and foreground trees are dark and silhouetted against the bright sky
    £525.00
    £525.00
    SOLD
  • Abstract painting with lots of heavily sculpted paint, applied with a palette knife, with a slab of pure white bottom right.
    £100.00
    £100.00
    SOLD
  • 6 x 8 inch oil of the main street in Lyddington in Rutland, looking into the sunlight, with chimneys silhouetted against the sunlight, with a strong shadow of a tree across the road and a couple of parked cars.
    £495.00
    £495.00
    SOLD
  • Small oil landscape of distant back-lit trees with a mature oak tree on the left and a small one on the right, and a meadow in th foreground, with an open gate beckoning us to walk through.
    £295.00
    £295.00
    SOLD
  • Waterproof-whizzers by Peter Barker print
    £195.00
    £195.00
    SOLD
  • 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.
    £975.00
    £975.00
    SOLD
  • 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.
    £895.00
    £895.00
    SOLD
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