The Fun is in the Detail

Peter le Vasseur’s pictures can at first glance appear to be beautiful nature pictures. Look again, look closely and you can find detail that adds meaning to the work, sometimes indeed its title. This has been part of the fun of working with Peter and writing A Brush With Life.

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The expression of despair on the face of the Amazonian Man in March of Progress? (1984) was inspired by a photograph of a striking Yorkshire coal miner. Spot the traffic jam heading towards the jungle at top.
During 2020 it was eerie to look at the detail within Lost World (2014) and spot people wearing face masks. In the bucolic scene on the left Peter has painted his own cottage as if seen from a distance.
Tree of Life (2000) has been voted the People’s Choice in Guernsey. In the trunk of the tree, humans are engaged in day to day activity, including a chastely snogging couple and a man in his bath with rubber duck
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The title of Worlds Apart (1989) comes from the tiny airliner in the top right of the picture where the artist imagines he’s sipping a cool drink as he flies over the desert

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Dramatic picture of an elephant family…but wait, that bloke has a rifle! Edge of Extinction (1989)

The examples could continue – a drone up in the frame of Eye in the Sky, Helicopters in the side frame of Paradise Lost, a real diamond embedded in Deadly Diamonds and the man taking a pee in El Dorado. They are fun to spot and add extra depths to the works, often underlining threat to the endangered ecosystems Peter depicts.

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