An art critic once observed that Peter Bigelow’s work reminded them of Richard Diebenkorn and Edward Hopper, a comparison that Bigelow understands and appreciates. Both artists influenced his work and helped shape a career that began five decades ago.

 

Bigelow’s award-winning work has been exhibited in Arizona, California, Georgia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and in Florida and has since criss-crossed many state lines as well as the boundry lines between abstract and representational art.

 

“Painting, for me, has been a serious effort to deal creatively with the deep inexpressible emotions I feel when confronted with the wonder and irony of living in this world. Nature and Man’s place in nature is at the center of much of my art.

 

These paintings are an artifact, a souvenir, of the place, the time, the process. I use color for light and space while working for solid compositions. The results vary in the degree of abstraction. I try to blend the abstract and the realistic. Sometimes I feel the need to distance the psychological implications of identifiable images: my work can be completely reduced to essential color planes. But when I refer to emotive archetypal images, renderings of recognizable objects is necessary“.