Peter
Hoffer


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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