The Paintings of Peter Stolvoort  introduction

 

Peter Stolvoort is a Virginia Eastern Shore artist who began painting at the age of five in his native Holland. He currently maintains a studio within the small coastal town of Harborton, Virginia, set on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay. Although he has won numerous awards for his commercial work during a distinguished career, it is his fine art that has begun attracting interest. That interest has compelled him to pursue a full-time fine arts career. Stolvoort's work is sometimes compared to the work of Jackson Pollock and Mark Tobey. There are similarities at first glimpse, but the viewer soon perceives an order and theme to Stolvoort's renderings that is not present in Pollock's work.
Stolvoort has married an obscure, little-practiced technique with modern paints to achieve a result that's unique -"so far as I know -to me", he said. Stolvoort also commented that, while artists usually become famous for what they add to their blank canvases, his success lies with what he removes.
Stolvoort devotes an equal amount of time to painting and lithography. He is a graduate of the Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia, where he studied painting, print making, and design. He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Printmaking Council of New Jersey.
Stolvoort's former studio was located The GoggleWorks Center For The Arts, one of the largest arts centers in the United States. It was created from a former safety eyewear factory, and opened in September, 2004. This past spring, Peter was juried into the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandra VA as an associate artist of the factory and will be relocating there in the future.
The artist's work can be found in many private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

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