Peter Rodulfo
Peter Rodulfo (born 1958) is a British artist and sculptor who spent much of his childhood travelling across India and Australia, before settling in Norwich, UK. He studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design (now Norwich University of the Arts) from 1975 to 1979. While based in Norwich he has travelled extensively; he was artist in residence at The Barony of Fulwood Trust Foundation Goiana, Brazil in 2004, and artist in residence at Shenzhen, China during 2012–13 and in 2016, Artist in Residence at The Barony of Fulwood Trust, Open For Art Project at Fundão, Portugal.[1][2][3]
Rodulfo re-located to the Norfolk coastal town of Great Yarmouth in 2012 where he is a member of the 'Yarmouth Six'. He is also, jointly with Mark Burrell, a leading member of the art movement known as the North Sea Magical Realists.
Themes and influences
Rodulfo is a prolific painter, working predominantly in oils on canvas, occasionally in the medium of sculpture. His paintings are loosely associated in their imagery and symbolism to Magical Realism, exploring themes, often with great humour, such as love and loss, the erosion of memory, natural and fantasy landscape, the elements, along with animals, real and imaginary.
His art is thematically and stylistically similar to the work of Paul Klee, Max Ernst and the British surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011). However his influences, along with the subject-matter, style and imagery of his paintings remain wide and experimental, occasionally esoteric.[4]
One art critic appraises his work thus –
Peter Rodulfo's work is a delight tempered with a prickle of unease—a journey into an imagination that tips your expectations sideways with a sly wink and tweak. Peter plays with what you think you know but does so in such a manner that you welcome the opportunity. His work deserves and earns close scrutiny. The visual puns, the technique and colors, the mediums employed all demand that you pay attention and you do, for fear of missing something important—and his work feels important. It is a mirror, a journey, and his talent is a pure pleasure.[5]
References
- ↑ "LondonArt.co.uk".
- ↑ http://www.oldframlinghamian.com/article.php?story=20060708005012550
- ↑ dm.revita newspaper Brazil 16 February 2004
- ↑ "Peter Rodulfo: Marrying the Inner and Outer Worlds". 16 September 2016.
- ↑ http://www.soundzine.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=127:peter-rodulfo&catid=36:art-and-photography&Itemid=56 [dead link]
External links
- Peter Rodulfo Art
- - A film about Peter Rodulfo
- 'As the Elephant Laughed': An evening with Peter Rodulfo
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