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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
  • 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
  • Creswell Crags - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £0.00
    £0.00
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  • Very loosely described landscape, with wild, thick brushstrokes and slashes of oil with all colours available.
    £125.00
    £125.00
    SOLD
  • 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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  • 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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  • Oil sketch in a hard frost, by the River Nene near Water Newton, with Willows reflected in the water, with Swans and Ducks on the river, and bankside vegetation painted with a palette knife.
    £450.00
    £450.00
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  • Oil painting of dusk at Wakerley Wood, with a golden sky, pines and lots of dead bracken on the woodland floor
    £1,095.00
    £1,095.00
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  • A 13 x 19 inch Pastel of a boat in the right foreground, tied to a landing stage by the Thames, with trees on the far bank set against a golden sky with a yellow sun on the horizon.
    £795.00
    £795.00
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  • Several boats on the mud at Morston, with the creek at low tide, cloudy sky with Blakeney in the distance
    £495.00
    £495.00
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  • Cow Parsley by the Barn, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £495.00
    £495.00
    SOLD
  • Stonethwaite Farm by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £725.00
    £725.00
    SOLD
  • Farmstead near Ullswater, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £425.00
    £425.00
    £525.00
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  • Small watercolour, 7 x 10 inches, of Pentewan Beach in Cornwall, with the dark headland and colourful windbreak in the mid-ground, with many people having fun on the sand and in the surf.
    £325.00
    £325.00
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  • Sundown over the River Chater, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £295.00
    £295.00
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  • Southern End of Derwentwater, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £750.00
    £750.00
    SOLD
  • Bright Day, Stonethwaite Beck, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £995.00
    £995.00
    £1,250.00
    SOLD
  • Sparkling Water, Borrowdale, 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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  • Morning Light, Stonethwaite 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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  • Willygrass Gill 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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  • Teasels and Frost, by Peter Barker - 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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  • The Footbridge over the Manifold at Ilam, by Peter Barker - 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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  • A Tangle of Willows, by Peter Barker - 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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  • Fog by Duddington Bridge, by Peter Barker - 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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  • Frost in the Village, by Peter Barker - 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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  • Sunlit Winter Trees by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £525.00
    £525.00
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  • Blagdon Lake, Mendips by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £575.00
    £575.00
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  • The Road to Wakerley, by Peter Barker - 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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  • Crack Willows near Wakerley, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £925.00
    £925.00
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  • 17 x 12 inch oil of a bunch of Crimson Gladiolies and white Lilies in a glass jar, painted outside on a balmy Summer day.
    £695.00
    £695.00
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  • July, Burnham Overy Staithe, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £1,325.00
    £1,325.00
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  • Eagle Crag, above Stonethwaite Fells, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £1,425.00
    £1,425.00
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  • 12 x 17 inch oil of some sheep on a wet road by Buttermere, with the blue Fleetwith Pike in the distance.
    £1,175.00
    £1,175.00
    SOLD
  • Ponies in the Frost, by Peter Barker - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £2,350.00
    £2,350.00
    SOLD
  • A 9 x 12 inch oil painting of a Monet-type arched footbridge over the pond at Doddington Hall, with a brick turreted building on the right bank, lots of reflections in the water
    £725.00
    £725.00
    SOLD
  • A 9 x 12 inch oil painting from near Snowshill in the Cotswolds, looking over the valley towards Broadway in the distance, with a natural arch on the left mid-ground, made from a collapsed dead tree.
    £725.00
    £725.00
    SOLD
  • A 9 x 12 inch oil painting of a huge Beech tree in the woodland of Clumber Park near Newark, with lots of gnarled, twisting branches off an enormous trunk, path going around to the right, set in early Spring with a few bits of greenery in the background.
    £650.00
    £650.00
    SOLD
  • A 9 x 12 inch oil painting of Coombe Abbey Lake near Coventry, with early Autumn colours, reflections in the still waters of lake, some ducks dabbling
    £645.00
    £645.00
    SOLD
  • An oil painting of a spinney near my studio on a cold, bright January morning, with a golden sun partially hidden behind an Oak tree, casting a golden light over the woodland.
    £895.00
    £895.00
    SOLD
  • 10 x 14 inch oil painting of Bassenthwaite Lake in the Lake District, painted on a calm day, with mirror-like reflections, trees in the right foreground and a ripple near the shoreline from a rising trout.
    £1,095.00
    £1,095.00
    SOLD
  • Summer Evening, Eyebrook - P E T E R B A R K E R F I N E A R T
    £1,150.00
    £1,150.00
    SOLD
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