The Art of Peter Hay. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Art of Peter Hay

Peter Hay (1951–2003) was a visionary artist. He was a very English painter whose work has a poetic and mystical quality. Eclectic, curious magpie, he found inspiration from everywhere and gathered it into his image-making. He was a fine draughtsman and watercolourist, a brilliantly inventive printmaker. At heart a figurative artist, the work moves into abstraction through striking black and white and a rich use of colour.

After studying Fine Art at Reading University, and two years away in Cornwall, Peter Hay settled in Reading for the rest of his life. He had a strong sense of place; the junction of the rivers Thames and Kennet close to his home was a frequent symbolic theme in his work. He became a central figure in the local art community and was an inspirational teacher. In 1994 he founded Two Rivers Press which gave him the opportunity to pursue through illustration his passion for campaigning, his love of poetry and history.

This book brings together the range of this prolific artist’s work for the first time.

John Froy was born in Yorkshire and grew up in the West Country. He went to art school, travelled widely, and taught English as a Foreign Language, then settled in Reading with his wife and daughter and started a decorating business. He ran Two Rivers Press for a number of years. He has published two collections of poetry Eggshell: A Decorator’s Notes and Sandpaper & Seahorses, and a volume of memoir The Art School Dance, with Two Rivers Press.

Martin Andrews was a museum and exhibition designer for many years and since 1990 has been a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is a printing historian, has lectured widely in Britain and abroad and published numerous articles as well as Fox Talbot & the Reading Establishment (Two Rivers Press, 2014) and an extensive biography of the author and artist Robert Gibbings.