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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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203 products
  • 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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  • 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
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  • 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
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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
    £1,095.00
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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
    £395.00
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  • 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
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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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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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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.
    £975.00
    £975.00
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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.
    £895.00
    £895.00
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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
    £725.00
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  • £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
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  • Oil painting with view towards Bisbrooke across snow-covered fields and dark, bare trees against a yellowy horizon and blue-grey clouds. Painting size 6 x 8 inches.
    £495.00
    £495.00
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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
    £3,750.00
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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.
    £895.00
    £895.00
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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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  • 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.
    £495.00
    £495.00
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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.
    £1,395.00
    £1,395.00
    SOLD
  • 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.
    £495.00
    £495.00
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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.
    £2,950.00
    £2,950.00
    SOLD
  • 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
    SOLD
  • 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.
    £695.00
    £695.00
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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.
    £595.00
    £595.00
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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.
    £150.00
    £150.00
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    £1,250.00
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  • Dark, abstract oil painting, with strokes of mostly dark blue and green, with a few red brushtrokes dragged across trhe centre, with a single rectangular slab of white and a touch of yellow oil paint, placed with a palette knife.
    £85.00
    £85.00
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  • Abstract oil painting with slabs of blue and green paint with some impasto strokes of red and white, with three circular swirls, akin to the innards of a clock
    £75.00
    £75.00
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  • A large oil painting of a bridleway near Lyndon in Rutland by Peter Barker with bare trees, frosty ruts and a low winter sun
    £2,750.00
    £2,750.00
    SOLD
  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting of narrowboats moored next to the towpath on the left, with a bridge in the distance, trees reflected in the calm waters.
    £895.00
    £895.00
    SOLD
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