Most of the chosen imagery is water based either mid ocean, or along that dramatic zone where land meets sea. Most works exclude man and the complication of his influence.

Water, land, light, wind and movement, together with their charged interaction are the starting points for my paintings. The ultimate works depict favourite places that have punctuated the memory - either by sheer beauty, awesome power or atmospheric foreboding.

I equally attempt to evoke the feeling that our natural environment is indeed the total power - and should be looked after.

Most works are constructed from memory and expedition sketchbooks. They unveil themselves through a layered technique of glazes and a multitude of tiny marks.

I paint like I draw, intoxicated by the principal like nature, that many small components and layers make up the bigger picture.

The attention given to each tiny little mark in each layer, somehow envelops me in a closer memory or that world.

Peter Anderson
June 2003