Peter
Hoffer


Works

Clementine


24’’ x 94’’

Parable


36’’ x 72’’

Trace


36’’ x 72’’

Amelie


24’’ x 24’’

Apple Blossom


48’’ x 36’’

April


48’’ x 96’’

Archimedes


32’’ x 72’’

Artemis


40’’ x 72’’

August


60’’ x 48’’

Autumn Broach


12’’ x 12’’

Autumn Foliage


60’’ x 60’’

Belle


48’’ x 48’’

Chantel Blossoms


48’’ x 48’’

Chinese Quince


48’’ x 48’’

Coeur


60’’ x 48’’

Cornouller


36’’ x 60’’

Course


36’’ x 72’’

Current


48’’ x 48’’

Divide


48’’ x 48’’

East of Loire


24’’ x 94 1/2’’

Epiphany


56’’ x 48’’

Euclid


24’’ x 24’’

Fayette


60’’ x 48’’

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’’

Harmony Peach


18’’ x 16’’

Hawthorne


21 5/8’’ x 15 3/4’’

Hesse


60’’ x 60’’

Holbein


48’’ x 48’’

Laurence Floral


60’’ x 46’’

Lawrence


48’’ x 48’’

Loire


48’’ x 48’’

Magnolia


60 1/8’’ x 48’’

Maiden


36’’ x 48’’

Mantegna


48’’ x 59 1/16’’

Marie


36’’ x 22’’

Marseilles


36’’ x 48’’

Mediterra II


72’’ x 36’’

Mist


24’’ x 24’’

Montreaux


56 1/4’’ x 48’’

Mucha


32’’ x 72’’

Newport


60’’ x 48’’

Pan


60’’ x 54’’

Parc


36’’ x 22’’

Pomme


60’’ x 60’’

Pomme 2


24’’ x 24’’

Poplar


60’’ x 60’’

Priest


36’’ x 72’’

Rorem


22’’ x 22’’

Russian Pine


72’’ x 40’’

Small Lindon


12’’ x 8 3/8’’

Spirit


59 3/4’’ x 59 3/4’’

Spring Almond


32’’ x 72’’

Tanguay


24’’ x 24’’

Tempest


60’’ x 48’’

Temple 2


24’’ x 24’’

Twilight Pomme


60’’ x 46’’

Voltaire


48’’ x 48’’

White Ash


21 5/8’’ x 15 3/4’’

Wild Cherry 2


60’’ x 60’’

Yellow Birch


21 5/8’’ x 15 3/4’’

Young Poplar


38’’ x 60’’

Young White Birch


60’’ x 48’’


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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