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Pete Greening – Paintings
Monday 7th – Saturday 26th June 2010
Pete’s only formal art education was up to the first year of art ‘A’ Level in the 1970/71 academic year, which he only did thinking it would be a skive. Towards the end of that academic year, he discovered the mid to late ‘60s works of Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely, and was inspired to start painting geometric abstract paintings as a result. Sadly the new found enthusiasm didn’t come soon enough to stop him being asked to leave the educational establishment he was at, and he found himself starting work in late 1971 as a civil servant, while continuing to paint as a hobby.
Time flew by, and paintings stacked up, and he eventually had a joint exhibition with an old school friend in The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead in March 1980.
A further exhibition was also held with the same friend in November / December 1982 in what was then the Dower House Gallery at 108 High St, Berkhamsted.
Although he had paintings in the Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead’s 1980 and 1981 summer shows and the Dower House Gallery’s summer show in 1983, this is his first exhibition since then, and his first solo exhibition.
His paintings explore the optical effects of linear distortion and arithmetical progression. The patterns and colours used are carefully selected to create either an optical illusion of movement, or to create a feeling of tension on the surface of the painting.
More of his works can be viewed on the internet at www.flickr.com/photos/pete_greening/