Jim Peters’ work speaks of the complexities of human nature. The need to forge bonds, to fight the sense of isolation and alienation is his recurring theme. He ponders the intricacies of desire and longing obsessively culling moments from the everyday drama between mate, home, home, and family. Mapping the human figure, the overlapping brushwork of murky sfumato penetrates intimacy. The scenario is not one of mere observation, it probes deeper than the flesh, searching to fathom both the restlessness of desire and the yearning for commitment.

“My work is a search for a domestic space and a domestic sensuality. I paint my wife, my family, from my mind and my imagination. I paint us where we live or want to live. The work is a constant revision, changing and honing images until fantasy and reality meet. I love constructing, building, creating space both illusionary and real. I add elements such as wood, wire, metal to the pieces in an attempt to create a tension between 2-D illusion and 3-D reality. I want the work to be both an object and an illusion...like passion?”

In 1984, while Peters was a fellow at the Fine Arts work Center in Provincetown, CDS Gallery discovered his talent and began exhibiting his work. His first exhibition took place within “New Horizons in American Art” at the Solomon Guggenheim in 1985. Since then, he has regularly been included in national and international shows. A museum exhibition spanning twenty years of his work is currently being organized with Ann Wilson Lloyd as curator and author. His work is frequently reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Observer, Provincetown Arts, Art New England, The Boston Globe, Artnews and Art in America.

Awards include Fellowships at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts Artists Grants, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship, and Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. He has work in many collections world wide including William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Flint Institute of Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Jim Peters lives and works in Truro, MA, with his wife, the artist Vicky Tomayko, and their two children, Arvid and Sylvia.