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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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242 products
  • Oaks, Cow Parsley and Barns, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £625.00
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    £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
    £895.00
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  • Portrait of a huge oak tree, set on the right side of the painting, with bank of grey distant trees, set on a dull day. Lots of twisted branches radiating out.
    £695.00
    £695.00
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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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  • 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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  • 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
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  • 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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  • Small oil of random brush and thick palette knife marks.
    £100.00
    £100.00
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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.
    £265.00
    £265.00
    £475.00
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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 painting of the river welland on a bend at Harringworth, with loosely painted backdrop of trees, reflected in the fast-moving water.
    £295.00
    £295.00
    £625.00
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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
    £1,250.00
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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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  • 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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  • 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
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  • A bend in the River Welland at Duddington, with snow on the foreground bank and a fierce sun breaking on the skyline of distant trees, and a Hawthorn bush on the far riverbank on the left.
    £975.00
    £975.00
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  • Landscape of old Willows, one of them half-falling over a stream, framing a bonfire in the field, with a stream running to the left foreground and fence posts on the right of centre.
    £625.00
    £625.00
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  • 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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  • 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
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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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  • 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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  • 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
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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 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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  • Wild Sea near Trevone, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £695.00
    £695.00
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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.
    £495.00
    £495.00
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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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  • 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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  • 9 x 12 inch oil, painted on site at Renishaw Lake, with lots of greens abounding, trees all around a still lake.
    £395.00
    £395.00
    £695.00
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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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  • 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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  • 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
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  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of a curling path at wakerley Wood, with Bluebells abounding on both sides.
    £495.00
    £495.00
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  • Pines and Bluebells, Barnsdale - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £495.00
    £495.00
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    £1,395.00
    £1,395.00
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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
    £1,395.00
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