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Peter WilemanTaken to Another Place – British Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting
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£9,075
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Peter Wileman’s “Taken to Another Place” is a masterful exploration of light, color, and atmosphere, embodying the artist’s signature style of bold abstraction and expressive brushwork. Known for his ability to distill landscapes into their most evocative forms, Wileman uses a rich interplay of colour and texture to create a composition that feels both dynamic and immersive.
At first glance, the painting presents a landscape-like structure, where swathes of luminous blues contrast with deep, dramatic reds and blacks. The eye is drawn to the upper portion, where a radiant light source—suggestive of a setting or rising sun—spills onto the horizon, creating a golden path that leads into the depths of the composition. Wileman masterfully balances abstraction with a sense of place, allowing viewers to interpret the scene through their own emotions and experiences.
Wileman employs a vigorous, gestural approach to paint application, layering oils in both thick impasto and delicate washes. The juxtaposition of smooth, blended areas with energetic, palette-knife strokes adds depth and dimensionality, making the surface of the painting feel alive with movement. His technique enhances the ethereal quality of the piece, as if the elements—light, air, and land—are in constant flux.
Through bold colour choices, dynamic brushwork, and a masterful understanding of light, Wileman creates a painting that is at once rooted in reality and transcendent of it. This is a work that doesn’t simply depict a place—it transports the viewer to an entirely new one.
“For me, painting is as much a part of the day as eating and sleeping. In fact, it’s more important than that, more like breathing! I could not imagine a single day passing without talking about, reading about, or actually taking part in some kind of activity concerning art. Like a moth is drawn to a flame, a painter is drawn to the light, and although I have tried to express myself with painting in many different forms, mediums and styles over the years, my path has lead me inexorably, like so many others before me, to try and capture that elusive quality of light, that only a shimmering sunset, dawn of a new day, dazzling sparkle of reflection off both sea and river presents to one who is prepared to both look and see.”
- Peter Wileman
Highly acclaimed British abstract artist Peter Wileman is one of the UK’s leading contemporary landscape artists today. Known for his dazzling abstracted oil landscapes, Wileman’s style is bold and vigorous, both in the use of colour and handling of paint, as he explores the effect of light on his subject. Seeking atmosphere through light and colour, he works in varying degrees of abstraction.
Interested in painting from a young age, upon leaving school he went straight into his first job at Hallmark Cards, a card company, where his innate artistic talent was immediately recognised. Here Peter spent five years studying lettering and design, his first artistic training - which gave him a solid grounding in colour awareness and formal structure. Wileman later became the art editor on a number of magazines. Looking for an opportunity to develop his own artwork, Peter left his budding design career to become a freelance artist; a decision from which he has never looked back.
Wileman’s style is bold and vigorous, both in the use of colour and handling of paint, as he explores the effect of light on his subject. Working exclusively in oils, the medium most adaptable to changes of light and mood, he evokes atmosphere through light and colour through varying degrees of abstraction. Wileman’s work is reminiscent of the great master Joseph Mallord William Turner through its atmospheric quality. His work has a superb energy, with paint applied in washes and also with areas of impasto. The foregrounds are complex, but not distracting from the subject within his work.
Over the last two decades Wileman has exhibited regularly at a number of prestigious art venues including the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the New England Art Club and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters of which he is an associate member. Wileman has built a distinguished reputation as one of the finest landscape artists practising in the UK today.
Image dimensions: 80cm x 130cm / 35½ inches x 48 inches
Framed dimensions: 98.8cm x 149cm / 38.9 inches × 58.7 inches
Signed lower left.
- Creator:Peter Wileman (British)
- Dimensions:Height: 38.9 in (98.8 cm)Width: 58.67 in (149 cm)Depth: 2.96 in (7.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2615215845732
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