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With permission from the author, we would like to share with you this heartfelt and moving comment on the work of Peter Poskas. We hope it touches you as it did us.
I have been a landscape painter, primarily of rural Maryland and Pennsylvania, for over forty years. I thought I understood composition, mood, and particularly the ephemeral transitions of light on the timeless hills and fields that comprise my body of work. However, all that changed some twenty years ago when, by chance, i saw an advertisement for Peter Poskas’ book The Illuminated Landscape, Defining and Painting Light and Space in an art periodical. I was totally transformed by his work and by his direct, no-nonsense narrative. There isn’t a scintilla of egocentrism that I can detect from reading his books and catalogs or watching the brief interview on this website. That is quite refreshing in a world filled with artist wannabees who attempt to shore up their unimaginative, derivative work with a lot of self-serving chatter.
Beyond that, Mr. Poskas’ work has almost a life-giving quality to it. Since my initial exposure to his work over twenty years ago, I have survived three job losses in nine years due to corporate downsizing, cancer (now in remission), and Parkinson’s Disease, my current nemesis for the past six years. when I get down, I can usually depend on getting a well-deserved lift by studying Poskas’ monumental work.
I continue to draw and paint daily as a kind of digital exercise but also to immerse myself in the regenerative powers of artistic creation.
David M. Churchill
Frederick, Maryland
Comment posted 4/2/2012 on the blog post Opening Photos! Peter Poskas: Capturing Light
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