A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T My work is driven by the natural world and how we experience it. I see my work as pictures about juxtaposition- of things to other things, of images to experience, of us to the world we occupy. I typically use landscape as an entry point - sky, water, place. I'm drawn to these spaces, but I'm also drawn to how we experience them daily...particularly through the language of the hundreds of predetermined images we encounter moment to moment. These intakes help inform how we see the world around us. It's what we see, and how we see it. All images of places and things have undergone editing to control narrative and viewer experience. It's a seemingly endless well of choices- scale, size, edges, duration, etc. I'm interested in exploring these in my work. It feels like language to me, conveying meaning and drawing a response. In recent years this exploration has taken some of my work off the flat two-dimensional plane and into deeper space, with the work's structure pushing into columns and cubes. If image are windows, I'm looking at the window's shape in addition to the scale- tall verticals, narrowed widths. All images are substances on surfaces, creating illusion, standing in. This push/pull of illusory space against other types of marks- perhaps flatter and more abstract in nature, is a back and forth dialogue that speaks about the beautiful artifice of image as much as anything else. Additionally, while my very dire concerns about our treatment of the environment are not the primary driving force in my work, I can't ignore them. They seep in. Perhaps as a metaphor, perhaps directly so. In the end, art is a voice from a point in time, about our consciousness in that time. Thisis mine. B I O G R A P H Y Peter Roux is a full-time artist living and working in Asheville, North Carolina. Originally from Boston, Peter studied at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He had a studio in the River Arts District of Asheville for a number of years until it was destroyed during Hurricane Helene in September of 2024. Peter works primarily in oils, but also creates drawings and monotypes. Using nature as his subject, Peter explores not only natural forms, but also how we experience the world around us. We are confronted by more images on a daily basis than at any other time in history, and this has invariably affected how we perceive life. Peter is interested in how the language of imagery impacts our perception of the natural world. He sees all images as windows, with pre-determined edges, sizes, and layers of information. Peter looks toexplore these parameters in his work. Recently, Peter has focused on land, clouds, water and trees, often combining representational approaches alongside elements of abstraction: areas of marks and flourishes that remind the viewer that the pieces are not the things they represent, but instead the result of the experience of seeing them. In recent years, an inescapable metaphoric connection to the ever-widening world climate crisis has played a large role in Peter's work. Some of his more recent work has taken the idea of the two-dimensional window and pushed it into three-dimensional space, creating works on vertical panels, cubes and other shaped surfaces. Peter is represented by numerous galleries both nationally and internationally. His work is held in numerous private collections as well as the corporate collections of Fidelity Investments, the Ritz-Carlton Corporation, Four Seasons Hotels, Kimpton Hotels, Meditech Corporation, the US Department of State, and many others. He has had numerous solo exhibitions all over the world.