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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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165 products
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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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.
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  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of Pine trees at Barnsdale Wood, looking straight into the sunlight, with bluebells beneath.
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  • 9.5 x 13.25 inch oil painting of mature trees with bluebells and a wood-pile
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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.
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  • 10 x 14 inch painting of a lane leading to some barns, each verge adorned with Cow Parsley, and mature Oak trees in the far verge and a bare Ash tree on the left verge.
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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.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting showing tall Larch trees on the right with orange sunlit foliage, some green Scots Pines in centre and left, several walkers walking towards the light blue distant hills.
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  • 9 x 12 inch oil painting showing a stand of Birch and Pine Trees on the right, with blue hills into the distance.
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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.
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  • 10 x 14 oil of Dovedale, with trees in the left foreground bank, withe river Dove flowing away from the viewer, and the distant hillside sweeping away ahead and a dark rocky hill on the right. any figures crossing the stones.
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  • Moor Lane from North Luffenham looking into the sunlight with an intensely lit barn roof and winter trees, by Peter Barker
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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  • 6 x 8 inch oil painting of a curling path at wakerley Wood, with Bluebells abounding on both sides.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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  • 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.
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