Studio -           Harborton, Virginia

Contact -         peterstolvoort@gmail.com 

Website -        www.peterstolvoort.com

About the Artist - Peter Stolvoort, a new artist to the Eastern Shore began painting at the age of five in his native Holland and now maintains a studio on the Delmarva Peninsula in Harborton VA. Although he has won numerous awards for his commercial work during a distinguished career, it is his fine art that has begun attracting interest. That interest has compelled him to pursue a full-time fine arts career. Stolvoort's work is sometimes compared to the work of Jackson Pollock and Mark Tobey. There are similarities at first glimpse, but the viewer soon perceives an order and theme to Stolvoort's renderings that is not present in Pollock's work. "I have married an obscure, little-practiced technique with modern paints to achieve a result that's unique-so far as I know-to me," he said. Stolvoort also commented that, while artists usually become famous for what they add to their blank canvases, his success lies with what he removes. Stolvoort is a graduate of the Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia, where he studied painting, print making, and design. He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Printmaking Council of New Jersey. Stolvoort's former studio was located in Reading PA at The GoggleWorks Center For The Arts one of the largest arts centers in the United States. This past year Peter was juried into the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia as an Associate Artist and looks forward to sharing a studio/gallery space there in the near future.The artist's work can be found in many private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

Artist Statement - I paint transitions of flow, movement, color tension, and reflections, by maneuvering wet fluid enamel paints into lines and patterns. With repeated layering upon layering of wet paint over wet paint over dried paint, I create an opalescent surface of dazzling textural color. Upon closer inspection, the work will seem almost topographical, geological, with cracks and grooves and dots in and on the surface, allowing the varying strata of paint layers to be openly visible.