The work of Pieter Greeff embodies the east end of Long Island – its light, marine scenes, and beach life. Greeff’s oils and watercolors reflect his respect, awe and understanding of the sea, the beach and the nearby coastal bays. Much of his earlier work depicted the tyranny of nature and its effects on the sea including shipwrecks and storms, something he is intimately familiar with. More recently his works have taken on a more whimsical tone as he has ventured into abstraction that, Greeff believes, can go beyond even human imagination. Moving far from dark storms at sea, his flattened planes of bright, summery colors and simple shapes celebrate the delights of life near the shore, from the beaches to the local fish markets. While his earlier seascapes hark back to Winslow Homer whom Greeff cites as a major influence for him, no one had a greater impact on his life as an artist than his mother, Adele Greeff, a 20th century landscape painter and lecturer on art for the City of New York at the City Center Gallery whose work is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Schenectady Museum and Guild Hall in Easthampton. Greeff spent many hours of his boyhood painting with his mother and meeting her many artist friends including the legendary Jackson Pollock. Pieter Greeff’s work has been shown in New York City at the Wall Street Art Association and the Soerabaja gallery; as well as in galleries in Westhampton Beach, Philadelphia, and Strasburg, Virginia. His work is also in private and corporate collections in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.