peter doig

I keep coming across Peter Doig lately and stopping in my tracks. His paintings do something softly alchemical. There's a refreshing lack of irony compared to much painting being produced today, at least as far as my feelers can sense. A belief in something beyond the material perhaps...

{"Red Boat (Imaginary Boys)" , 2004
oil paint on canvas
200 x 186 cm
78 3/4 x 73 1/4 "}