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Peter Hicks Peter Hicks has pursed a career as a professional painter for many
years. He was head of a large Art
Department at Queen Elizabeth College, Darlington, lectured extra mural for
Durham and Hull Universities and compiled a publication on the Life and work of
the well know artist, Lilian Colbourn.
As a result her work was shown in Cork Street, London. 'In Yorkshire the name of Peter Hicks is almost synonymous with
paintings of the North Yorkshire moors.
His sweeping landscapes of the moors in all seasons and weathers
describe and explore the fall of light and cloud-shadow over immense rolling
distances. Although his paintings are
usually specific to particular places on the moor, they are abstracted in the
making until their poetic, visionary qualities become uppermost. The layered depths in these landscapes
correspond to the layers of memory and association connected with the familiar
places. Hicks knows the land so well
that the moors, in all their guises, have become a metaphor for intimations of
hope and harmony that are only to be found in nature. His paintings incorporate both an experienced reality and an
exploration of his feelings. For him,
as for John Constable, 'painting is but another word for feeling'. He owes his artistic allegiance to the great
English landscape artists, especially Turner, and is quick to defend the
continuing relevance of landscape painting as a vehicle for expressing ideas
and feeling that can find a universal appeal'. Quote from'
the elemental north' exhibition Messem's - text by Jenny Pery - Author and Art
Historian "I work out of need and towards some kind of fulfilment. My perception is caught between figuration
and abstraction, in a world where hints, hopes and promises abound. It aims at a coming together and promises an
amalgam of many things; the known or familiar, an aspiration, a shared moment,
or a memory. My stimulus remains the environment, particularly from places where
thoughts intervene, etching their own patina upon familiar objects. The aim is to be a clear transparency to the
ideas that come to thought. I subscribe to the belief that, though the forms of art change, the
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To contact for a warm and friendly welcome from the painter himself Telephone 01287 660543 (with call minder) Peter M. Hicks, 19 Briar Hill, Danby, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 2LZ See map at bottom of page |
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Peter M
Hicks
Solo Exhibitions
1988 University of Picardy, Amiens, France
1993 Maclaurin Galleries, Ayr
1994 Castlegate House, Cockermouth
1995 Stonegate Gallery, York
1996 The Gallery, Gateshead
1996 Myles Meeham Gallery, Darlington
1998 Washington, County Durham
2001 Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford
2003 Michael Pybus Fine Arts, Whitby
2005 Minster Gallery, York
Group Exhibitions
1991 'British Art Month' Roy Miles Gallery,
Mayfair, London
1994 Turners Legacy, Contact Gallery, Norwich
1995 Maclaurin Galleries, Ayr
1998 Yorkshire Artists, York City Art Gallery
1999 'Land, Sea, & Sky, Myles Meeham Gallery
2000 Ryedale Music Festival, Helmsley
2003 Art Connections, Pannett Gallery, Whitby
2004 The Caedmon Group, Eton College
2005 Alresford Gallery, Winchester
2005 Messum's, Cork Street, London
2006 Michael Pybus Fine Arts - Whitby
2006 Corrymella Scott Gallery - Jesmond -
Newcastle
2008 "One Moment" Exhibition Galanthus Gallery, Wormbridge, Hereford
Work can be seen at:-
www.axisweb.org
Alresford
Gallery, Winchester
Lund
Gallery, York
Fee Fi Fo
Fum Gallery, Northumberland
Features and Articles
Observer
Newspaper - Year of the Arts - Northern Arts -1996
Newcastle
Journal - Year of the Arts - Northern Arts -1996
Work
features on BBC & ITV - Year of the Arts 1996
ITV Friday
Live - 1999
ITV Dales
Diary -2000
Interviews
on a number of other regional programmes
New Film of
Peter working in the Esk Valley 2008
Book on
Peter Hicks life and work 2008
Forthcoming Exhibitions
2008 Lund Gallery, York, April
2008 Galanthus Gallery, Herefordshire July/August
2008 West Dean College, Sussex
2008 'Art Connections' Eton College 2008 Messem's Cork Street, London
The Origins of Peter's Work
Much of Peter's work is
derived from the landscape of the North York Moors and its coastline, and the
Yorkshire Dales, but Peter has also has painted in
other parts of the country namely St Ives, Cornwall - Dorset, and during
recent years in Herefordshire.
Peter M. Hicks, 19 Briar Hill, Danby, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 2LZ (Telephone 01287 660543) |
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The landscapes and scenery of the Derbyshire Dales, The Lake District in Cumbria, The Yorkshire Dales, The Northern Pennines and The North Yorkshire Moors of Northern England have not only provided excellent walking and touring country for several hundred years but have also inspired the work of many artists whose paintings pay homage to the great natural beauty of the landscape around us. The work of such artists, in turn, has historically led to a greater interest and appreciation of the 'robust' landscapes of Northern England. The work of Peter Hicks should encourage to people to visit these wonderful scenic areas, and hopefully, those 'tourists' who know these areas well, appreciate his stunning interpretation of what is around them whether on foot or in the car! If you have found the site useful OR have any problems using the site? PLEASE EMAIL Phil Brown Images-photographs-pictures © Dr W P Brown/Peter M. Hicks 2007 |
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