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Peter Pharoah's style and technique is unique and has inspired many other artists to explore their creativity using bold colours and loose brushstrokes
Peter Pharoah with Thoko - Limited Edition Prints available
From animals to portraits, village scenes and abstracts, Peter Pharoah's unique style is iconic and an inspiration to many artists
Peter Pharoah at the Pharoah Art Gallery in WIlderness
On the Easel - Shades of Grey collection
In the Studio with Peter Pharoah
All Peter Pharoah prints are produced in-house and personally inspected by the artist
Blank Canvas - it's always exciting to see what Peter Pharoah creates
Peter Pharoah with one of his favourite subjects - the African buffalo
Even Peter Pharoah's painting clothes seem to reflect his love of the abstract
PETER'S STYLE & TECHNIQUE
PETER'S STYLE & TECHNIQUEA painter's technique – the actual way in which he applies paint – can be as personal and distinctive as handwriting.
This personal 'handwriting'; is a very distinctive part of Peter Pharoah's style. His paintings are built up with a system of glazes.
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Name: Ms. Tracey Pharoah
Business phone: 0769762629
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Email Enquiry: pharoah.art@gmail.com
PETER'S STYLE & TECHNIQUE
A painter's technique – the actual way in which he applies paint – can be as personal and distinctive as handwriting.
Peter Pharaoh's chosen medium, oils, are extremely flexible, allowing him to create surface textures ranging from porcelain smoothness to wildly expressive impasto (a term for thickly applied paint), using brushes, knives, or even fingers.
This personal 'handwriting'; is a very distinctive part of Peter Pharoah's style. His paintings are built up with a system of glazes.
A glaze is a transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint applied over another one in such a way that the lower one shows through to some extent. This can produce effects of great richness and depth of colour that cannot be achieved by simply mixing colours together.
To this rich and vibrant backdrop, opaque paint is lightly dragged or skimmed with the brush over a previous layer so that the lower layer is only partly covered and shows through irregularly. Taken together, these techniques allow him to create a vast range of colours and textural effects.
This unique and individualistic approach is a hallmark of Peter Pharoah's work, together with the richness and diversity of his subject, Africa, the land and its people provides a tapestry of contemporary art that both enthralls and inspires.'
