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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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248 products
  • A painting of a bridleway at Lyndon, with strong dark trees in the right foreground, frozen puddles in centre, and pale blueish distant trees, with orange leaves hanging on from Autumn.
    £1,095.00
    £1,095.00
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting with the canal flowing from centre right, with a hedgerow bordering the towpath on the left, and trees on the right, with a barn midway along. A lively, bright sky with clouds.
    £950.00
    £950.00
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  • 12 x 17 inch oil of the River Nene by Water Newton Mill, with the water crashing through the millrace, frost abounding, looking straight into the morning sun, with some cottages on the far bank, with old Willows set against them. Some water vapour scrubbed over the water for effect.
    £1,495.00
    £1,495.00
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  • Panoramic-shaped oil painting of barns in the village after a fresh snowfall, with bright blue sky, snow on the ground and several trees, and a brick barn with a snow-topped roof.
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
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  • Early Autumn Above Rydal Water, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
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  • 10 x 14 inch oil of a track leading through brilliant, Autumn coloured trees, with a bright yellow Birch tree right of centre, with the blue fells in the distance.
    £1,095.00
    £1,095.00
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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
    £3,250.00
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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
    £2,650.00
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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
    £495.00
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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
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  • 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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  • 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.
    £595.00
    £595.00
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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
    £650.00
    £650.00
    £995.00
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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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  • 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.
    £695.00
    £695.00
    £895.00
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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
    £1,150.00
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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.
    £625.00
    £625.00
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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.
    £695.00
    £695.00
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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.
    £895.00
    £895.00
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of the interior of Lincoln Cathedral, painted on site.
    £750.00
    £750.00
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  • Distant Shower, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £895.00
    £895.00
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  • Swans on Flooded Fields, by Peter Barker RSMA - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £875.00
    £875.00
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  • ‘Sunset Through the Great Oak at Lyndon’, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £625.00
    £625.00
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  • A 'Doer-Upper', by Peter Barker RSMA - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £795.00
    £795.00
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  • Autumn Amongst the Beeches, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £1,095.00
    £1,095.00
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  • 9x 12 inch oil painting of the river Dove in Dovedale, with a bank of trees in full leaf on centre left, with a backdrop of rocky hills
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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
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil of orange roses, growing wild with foliage and 6 blooms against a misty backdrop
    £450.00
    £450.00
    £795.00
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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
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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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  • 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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  • 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
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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
    £1,095.00
    £1,095.00
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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
    £625.00
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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
    £1,095.00
    £1,095.00
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  • An almost square abstract painting, mostly painted with a palette knife, using mostly primary colours of blue, red and yellow, with a few strokes of green
    £75.00
    £75.00
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  • Abstract oil painting with slabs of oil paint, heavily textured with a palette knife, using yellows, whites, reds, blues and greens, with a vertical longer stroke of blue/green.
    £85.00
    £85.00
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  • Small watercolour of sheep in a snowy meadow at sunset
    £295.00
    £295.00
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