Peter Seal is a Scottish artist who was born and grew up in Perthshire. He creates abstract collages, paintings and sculptures of subtle eloquence.
Peter Seal has been based in Manchester for over three decades having trained at Manchester Polytechnic in the 1980's following a Fine Art BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee.
Over the years this artist has built up a strong reputation for his serene and powerful abstract paintings, with their beautifully crafted surfaces and interplay of geometric shapes.
In the last few years Peter Seal has developed a method of composition, using a process of deconstruction and reconfiguration, which allows him to combine careful consideration with accident and spontaneity. Acrylic painted canvases are cut up and stitched back together to form an entirely new compositional arrangement.
These paintings are the product of sustained contemplation but are works of immediate dramatic quality. They are pictures of simplicity and strong colour but also of great variety in line, edge, surface texture and the inter-relationships of positive and negative shapes. Integral to all of this is the physicality of paint and colour,
both its integrity and vibrancy.
Peter Seal is keen to assert that while there might be subliminal references to the world of appearances, there are no explicit external reference points. Titles often come from songs or poems.
Peter Seal's artistic influences include Ellsworth Kelly and Matisse.