The Colour of Water

Painter Peter Misson has always lived near or on the sea. A Channel Islander by birth, his seafaring ancestry dates back to the renowned Captain Misson, a renegade French noble and founder of a piratical settlement in Madagascar circ. 1690.  For many years Peter owned his own boat and sailed, often single-handed, in Channel and Biscay waters. He moved to the Côte d’Azur three years ago and still spends time at sea between periods ashore in his artist’s studio.

Not surprisingly, Peter draws creative inspiration from his marine heritage, the experiences of his life at sea and on the margins of the land. Often his images are an amalgam of several sketching trips or remembered voyages and Peter has found watercolour to be the ideal medium for these subjects. He has exhibited many times at the Royal Society of Marine Artists and at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour annual exhibitions at the Mall Gallery in London.

Since moving to the South of France the change of light has had a profound influence on his work and he has begun to use oil for the first time in many years. His female nudes have become an extension of the compositional technique he has long used with marine watercolours.

Peter is available for private tuition in watercolour and life drawing for individuals or small groups. Contact details on page 32.
                                              
Exhibition of new work: May 19th to 28th, 2006, at Association des Beaux Arts de Cannes, 11 rue de la Boucherie, Le Suquet

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