Reviews of Peter's Art
What Peter's clients are saying about his original works of art
“I asked Peter to try to capture the scene we look through our living room window. The view of the south end of Salt Spring Island and Satellite Channel has provided us with much enjoyment for almost thirty years that we have lived in the house we built at Cherry Point.
Peter employed his remarkable skill as an artist not only to create a beautiful work of art but to enhance the vista with recommendations about scale, colour, texture, light and detail that are the tools of his trade.
The result “Satellite Channel From Cherry Point is a masterpiece…a twenty first century work that E.J. Hughes would be proud of.”
“Peter....thanks for sending along the link to your art....wonderful wake-up shocks of light.....I love the B.C. landscape -- in my next life I will live there...”
“Your work has qualities which I much value in any art, and which doesn’t often see nowadays. In negative terms, one could cite the absence of pretentiousness, mannerism or obsession; in positive terms, balance (of a very tight classical sort), richness and variety of color, line, and shape, and quite simply beauty (that much reviled and avoided quality). Your subject matter too appeals to me, for implied in it is a celebration of the fineness of apparently ordinary sights that one sees about one. Congratulations! You have produced wonderful, refreshing work.”
"The paintings of Peter Spohn are works of thoughtful and beautiful design. They show the hand of a skilled draftsman and are finely composed, but mostly they clearly convey a delight in light and a keen interest in place. Artist and art educator, Peter Spohn combines an understanding of painting, past and present, with that intimate knowledge gained only by countless hours of sketching and painting his subjects out of doors. Each of his paintings grows from the many that preceded it and a love of the beautiful Cowichan Valley where he and his family live."
"Having never before commissioned a piece of art, I naively assumed that the artist would simply take license to do what he wished with the subject at hand. What an unanticipated gift, then, to be engaged by Peter in a deep and fascinating conversation about art and meaning, history and spirituality, colour, form and perspective (in its many meanings)! The end result has been not only an exquisite painting which elicits appreciation from all who encounter it, but a personal object of contemplation which continues to grant me new insights at each viewing."
Review of Peter’s teaching
“Peter’s was the first course that I have taken that I felt the criticism was dispensed with passion, yet compassionate so as not to offend, but encourage. The gentleness, yet “tough love” when required, was delivered with humour.”