Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Belle Époque Today: The Art of Peter Kuhfeld, RP

The Wyndham Family
Peter Kuhfeld
A member of the Royal Academy, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the New English Art Club, Peter Kuhfeld has been painting since 1972. This multiple-prize winning figurative painter has impressed critics and art lovers with his richly-colored portraits.


Kuhfeld not only shows the essence of his sitters in his romanticized portraits, but also has mastered showing them in their natural surroundings and in compositions which don’t appear to be posed, but rather seem to be captured moments in time. While his loose brushstrokes lend an ethereal quality to his subjects, his brave use of color affords them weight and permanence while his brilliant rendering of light and shadow anchor his subjects into the frame of the composition.

HRH Charles, The Prince of Wales
Peter Kuhfeld
A proponent of the New English Art Movement, Kuhfeld continues to prove that a portrait doesn’t need to be a photographic representation in order to effectively and attractively showcase both the sitter’s beauty and the artist’s talent.












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