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Spotlight on Peter Hackett

Working in thick impasto oils, contemporary painter Peter Hackett creates captivating and immersive landscapes, presenting to the viewer’s eye his sublime vision of nature’s incomparable beauty.
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The Limitless Horizon

If painting is like keeping a diary, then the works of Philippa Blair are a personal record of the thoughts, feelings, and events that motivate, inspire, or even at times, horrify her. “I develop with the painting,” she says. “It’s as if the DNA of the painting and my own DNA somehow combine to create a new lifeform.”
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The Limitless Horizon

Their work is sublime, the vision extraordinary. But now we look to the future, the potential of the next generation. OREXART is proud to present works by Richard McWhannell, Tony Lane, Martin Ball, Peter James Smith and John Madden, names you may already be familiar with because their journey has begun, their horizons limitless.
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Richard McWhannell

With a wink and nod to the centre-creased enthusiasms of the discerning gentleman/woman, Richard McWhannell, car enthusiast and well-known artist, has combined images of vintage race and sports cars, and period pinup girls.
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