WORK OF THE WEEK : Peter Frie ‘Landscape 8’, 2023

Left: Peter Frie, Landscape 3, 2023, Oil on canvas, 120 x 90cm / 47 ¼ x 35 ½ in.
Right: Peter Frie, Landscape 8, 2023, Oil on canvas, 180 x 120 cm / 71 x 47 ¼ in.

Peter Frie
Landscape 8, 2023
Oil on canvas
180 x 120 cm / 71 x 47 ¼ in.

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Dominated by an expanse of sky, Landscape 8 shows Peter Frie's masterful use of space and light. Working only from memory, declining to sketch in the landscape or to work from photographs, Frie's paintings do not recreate actual landscapes but "plausible landscapes" which provoke a response from the viewer. As Jeremy Lewison writes in 'Peter Frie: The View Belongs to Everyone', "standing in front of his work encourages the viewer to engage with their own memories, not of the landscape depicted but experiences had in similar situations". Frie often depicts landscapes in twilight, a transient moment signalling the passing of time, perhaps a memory fading as Frie paints. The white areas surrounding the image underline the ambiguity of memory, the painted landscape part of a more detailed thought impossible to recall as a whole.

Peter Frie (b.1947) lives and works in Båstad, Sweden and Phuket, Thailand. His work is in a number of major public collections including the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki; and the Malmö Museum, Malmö, as well as private collections across Europe. Peter Frie first exhibited with the New Art Centre in London in 1984 and has since shown his work regularly at Roche Court.

Peter Frie
Path No. 3, 2016
Oil on canvas
180 x 90 cm
5ft 10 ⅞ x 2ft 11 ½ in.

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