Belle Epoque

Artist: Peter Kotka
Title: Belle Epoque 
Medium: Original Acrylic On Panel
Image Size: 8" x 24"  
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Price: £750
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Biography: Peter Kotka
Peter Kotka is a major Artist recognised in the latest volume "British Artists since 1945" and his works grace many well-known private collections. 
He was born in 1951, to an English mother and Estonian father.
Touring California and after achieving some surprising success with a Gallery, and early commissioning of works which sold quickly, successful Exhibitions followed both in the UK and abroad and his professional career had started.
Peter explored different techniques and followed the detailed style such as that of Dutch Landscape painters of the 16th Century, Jacob van Ruysdael in particular. In 2004 Peter was invited to take part in a prestigious Still Life exhibition in California, where he was the bestselling artist in the show. He has continued to paint fine wines and still life and has achieved much acclaim and recognition for his work.
There is much painstaking detail in Peter's work and this statement explains it well: "Realism is far more abstract than abstract painting itself, as every brush stroke in an abstract painting is what it is, in a realist piece each brush stroke and mark is trying to be something that it isn't."

For Peter the painting process is a passion with a fresh challenge being presented every day.