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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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • Small woodland landscape with group of Beech trees and a carpet of leaves, with distant blue trees in the background
    £395.00
    £395.00
    SOLD
  • Frosty landscape with Water Newton mill and church in the distance, with bright, sunny sky, with a large foreground Willow ans tufted of frosted grass in the foreground.
    £550.00
    £550.00
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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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  • 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
    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
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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
    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 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
    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
  • Small oil of random brush and thick palette knife marks.
    £100.00
    £100.00
    SOLD
  • Small oil of two white roses set against a dark background with a lighter blue upper backdrop.
    £395.00
    £395.00
    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
  • 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 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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  • 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
  • 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
    SOLD
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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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
    £1,495.00
    SOLD
  • 9.5 x 13.25 inch oil painting of mature trees with bluebells and a wood-pile
    £975.00
    £975.00
    SOLD
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    £1,495.00
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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
    £1,250.00
    SOLD
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    £1,495.00
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  • £1,950.00
    £1,950.00
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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
  • 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
  • 10 x 17 inch landscape, with the white, sunlit High Wray Farm in the middle distance, with Windermere Lake in the distance and the blue distant mountains partly shrouded under cloud. Lots of Autumn-coloured trees abounding throughout.
    £1,275.00
    £1,275.00
    SOLD
  • 12 x 9 portrait-shaped oil painting of a brick cottage with tall chimneys, at Clumber Park, with a path leading through the painting from the right foreground to the backdrop of trees.
    £525.00
    £525.00
    £695.00
    SOLD
  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of a blue boat resting on the lake at Patchings Art centre, painted en plein air in June, so lots of greenery abounding
    £425.00
    £425.00
    SOLD
  • 9 x 12 inch oil of a stoney farm track in Derbyshire, curving round to the right with a stone wall alongside, and trees and some cattle in the field to the right.
    £425.00
    £425.00
    £795.00
    SOLD
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