Peter Macdonald

Peter McDonald was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1973 and currently lives and works between London and Tokyo. McDonald’s paintings examine intricate aspects of human behaviour, gradually compiling an encyclopaedia of images and scenarios. His use of intense colour and universal subject matter describes a realm which balances lucid realism with vivid distortions, filled with references to modern life such as shopping, exercising and socialising in cafés. His pictures investigate pictorial space by playfully exploring perspective and form. This heightened sense of reality becomes a means through which the artist articulates experience and meaning.