Peter Wolland Artist Talk
Wolland is a painter, interested in paint, place and is inspired by other artwork. He first started making paintings on the landscape he knew, and discovered new ways of painting after seeing a Pollock show. He would create sketches of landscapes and turn them into paintings. The paintings tended to be very abstract with only small references to landscape, they wouldn’t look like your stereotypical landscape painting. When he paints them he’s attempting to show experiences of weaving your way through a landscape through paint. Some of his paintings are named after Sherlock Holmes stories as he was reading them a lot early on in his career. The narrative of a painting started to become very important to Wolland. Influenced by Michelangelo, he liked the idea of the powerful being terrified. He decided to change this method of work and paint with a brush first, not sketch it out first. His drawings started to come after the paintings. He would produce ‘cleaning up’ paintings, using excess paint at the end of the day to make a quick painting on paper. He found that he was talking through paint, translation started to inspire him, translating ideas into paint.
