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Barry Peckham was born in the New Forest in 1945. He has had no formal training but started showing his work in London in 1974 and has continued to exhibit there. The majority of his work is associated with the New Forest and Solent shores but he seems equally at home, on his painting trips, with the big skies of Norfolk, the quay at St Ives, Cornwall and the Yorkshire Moors and Dales.
Peckham is proving to be a worthy successor to a notable line of New Forest painters. He seems to have taken the strengths of these artists and used them to build his own style and character. Characteristics such as confident brushstrokes, hazy backgrounds and powerful skies combined with his understanding of horse movement and their anatomy can all be seen in his work. A talented horse painter, he prefers the natural horse to the thoroughbred which is notable in his landscapes scenes.
Peckham’s marine paintings which include “HMS Warrior entering Portsmouth Harbour” and “The Royal Yacht Britannia and Valsheda at Cowes Week” show a great understanding of the wind, sea and sky making him worthy of his exhibits at the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
He seems to be constantly evolving, experimenting and refining his technique. An example of this is his revival of the technique of painting on linen use by the ‘Glasgow Boys’ in Scotland in the 1890’s. Watercolour is worked into the weave which adds to the texture of the picture.
Full membership of the ROI puts him within a group of some of the finest contemporary British artists of the day while full membership of the Equestrian Society shows recognition of his horse compositions. Terence Cuneo presented Peckham with the ‘Cuneo Medal’ for equestrian painting, a true accolade from one of the 20th Century’s leading oil painters. His CV illustrates that he is doing all the right things to be remembered in the future and he is already noted in many reference books including ‘Who’s Who in Art’.
Barry Peckham is widely collected in the United Kingdom and across most continents.
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