“Water Paintings”
I have based this group of paintings on a new collection of Poems by Charles Wright titled Sestets. Each painting, however, is not directly about any given poem. They are rather, evocations of elements and fragments of the work as a whole. Water certainly plays an elemental role in Wright’s work, however it is not the poet’s exclusive theme. So, like his poems, water is certainly a theme or vehicle in my paintings, but ultimately they are about mortality, nature, reflection, and illusion. -Peter Brooke
