Profile: Peter Fiore
Peter Fiore
 Tangle I Oil 48 x 48"
Peter Fiore combines a lifetime of illustration skills and a passion for light and the landscape to create paintings that communicate his personal emotional response to his subject and strike a universal chord in his viewers.
"I taught myself a lot about painting. As an illustration student I learned how to solve problems, not really how to make a painting. I understood value and structure but I didn't know how to apply that into paint. It wasn't until after I got out of school and I went the the Art Students League that I ran into a fashion illustrator and painter named Morton Kaish. He told me, 'Get the biggest set of pastels you can afford.' I got a thousand stick set and I didn't have to think about making color. I just had to think about selecting color. That's basically how I learned to paint. I learned to paint by dry-brushing one color over another and I used a lot of broken color in my work." "Illustration was about trying to make really good work and beating the clock at the same time. I found that I could do a book cover in a day. During the years I was illustrating - working on specific assignments - I was always painting something that I couldn't see in life. I was always painting something that was out of season - painting the winter in the summer and painting summer in the winter, because magazines and advertising are always done ahead of time. I was always painting from older photography or scrap reference or ideas of what I thought things were. Then when I really started painting and going out looking, I realized it's a different world than I thought it was."  Harmony Oil 30 x 40" "After successfully being an illustrator for many years, I realized that I was not a happy illustrator. I got tired of solving other people's problems. There are only so many times you can do the same picture. I started doing smaller jobs that gave me total freedom. With that total freedom I would try different ways of painting. I got paid to learn how to paint. That's how I treated those kind of jobs. I always painted for myself over the years, but finally in 2002, I decided to stop the illustration and jump into the painting I wanted to do. I much prefer where I am now." "I'm not interested in making postcards. I'm trying to do something that is more universal and eternal - trying to capture a moment that is believable, that is palpable, that you feel you can walk into and breathe. You've been in that air - maybe you haven't been exactly to that spot but you've been there. You've seen it before. That, to me, is what it is about." Learn more about Peter Fiore in our in-depth interview. To read it and to see more of his paintings,
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