Pete Maier

The need to create has been a driving force in my life for as long as I can remember. While I will always be a musician playing music is always a collaborative venture for me. Once I began making visual art I quickly found painting to be where my creative soul is truley fulfilled. Primarily a self taught artist, studying artists of many genres and eras. I began painting with watercolors, painting on location and from photos, also experimenting with pastels and acrylics. Honeing my skills and defining my style as I worked through the different media. I still work occasionally with watercolor or pastels but I consider these sketches for composition or value studies. I love the immediacy of acrylics, which much like watercolors, I find it necessary to plan first, and then paint rather quickly. This is especially true when painting en plein air (on location). I like finishing a painting in one session and see myself as a traditionalist.
Since moving to Georgia from New Jersey in 2004 I'm primarily a landscape painter and sense an urgency to capture the rural landscape which is disappearing so rapidly. I think being an artist helps to make me aware of just how precious life and the world around us truly is. Everytime I paint a landscape I wonder just how long before this scene will be taken from us. On a painting day at lake Lanier during the record drought of 2007, painting the lake became to depressing so I painted the sky through the trees which has inspired my 'Looking Up' series. The beauty of 'Looking Up' besides being a very positive outlook, is that no matter how our land is tranformed the sky will always be a source of inspiration. Knowing this is a comforting thought to me...
I enjoy capturing the essence of my subject without overworking it .This is the challenge I embrace. Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to include. Repeating the same subject either in different seasons or lighting conditions often reveals new aspects of the scene. Each painting remains true to itself and has a life and story of its own, no matter how many different versions I paint. Enjoy The Experience petemaier.com

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