Peter
Works
Creston
22’’ x 22’’
Hampshire
24’’ x 24’’
Hasting
24’’ x 24’’
Rorem
22’’ x 22’’
Apricot
24’’ x 24’’
April
48’’ x 96’’
Autumn Foliage
60’’ x 48’’
Autumn no. 2
44’’ x 63’’
Bartök
48’’ x 48’’
Blossom
36 1/8’’ x 72’’
Chase
60’’ x 48’’
Clara
56 1/4’’ x 48’’
Connecticut
56 1/4’’ x 48’’
Constance
48’’ x 48’’
Cornouller
36’’ x 60’’
Eleanor
60’’ x 60’’
Epiphany
56’’ x 48’’
Ettiene
56 1/2’’ x 48
Fielding
23 1/2’’ x 59 3/4’’
Forrest (220201)
10 3/4’’ x 7 5/8’’
Forrest (220203)
10 3/4’’ x 7 5/8’’
Forrest (220205)
10 3/4’’ x 7 5/8’’
Forrest (220206)
10 3/4’’ x 7 5/8’’
Forrest (220207)
10 3/4’’ x 7 5/8’’
Hampton
60’’ x 48’’
Harmony Peach
18’’ x 16’’
Lindon
59 3/4’’ x 59 3/4’’
Magnolia
60 1/8’’ x 48’’
Maple
60’’ x 60’’
Mediterra II
72’’ x 36’’
Montreaux
56 1/4’’ x 48’’
Newport
60’’ x 48’’
Plein (1)
13 3/4’’ x 29 1/2’’
Plume
60’’ x 48’’
Pomme
60’’ x 60’’
Poplar
60’’ x 60’’
Prague
56 1/4’’ x 48’’
Priest
36’’ x 72’’
Russian Pine
72’’ x 40’’
Silver Maple 1
36’’ x 22’’
Silver Maple 2
36’’ x 22’’
Small Lindon
12’’ x 8 3/8’’
Spirit
59 3/4’’ x 59 3/4’’
Tour
59 3/4’’ x 59 3/4’’
Trail
36’’ x 71 1/2’’
Valley
35 3/4’’ x 72’’
Wild Cherry 2
60’’ x 60’’
Young Elm
60’’ x 60’’
Young Poplar
38’’ x 60’’
Biography
Peter Hoffer was born in 1965 in Brantford, Ontario. He holds an MFA from Concordia University and degrees from the University of Guelph and OCAD University. He has lived and worked in Toronto, New York City, Paris, Montreal and Berlin.
He is known for his textural landscape paintings that employ a variety of new mediums and techniques. Trained in both sculpture and painting, Hoffer’s attention to materiality is always evident in his work. He paints directly on wood panel and often leaves part of the surface visible. Hoffer finishes each painting with a clear resin, a material that he began using while studying at Concordia University in Montreal in the mid-1990s.
In a single painting, Hoffer mixes a variety of styles including realism and abstraction. In contrast to his carefully rendered trees, Hoffer’s skies and backgrounds are spontaneous and painterly. To create the effect of light in his most recent paintings, Hoffer applies a single layer of translucent white paint, allowing it to make random patterns on the surface beneath. The resulting cloud-like shapes capture a certain quality of light found in Eastern and Northern Canada.
Peter Hoffer received his BFA from the University of Guelph in painting and sculpture and his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal in sculpture. His works are in many important collections across Canada including Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
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