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Born in Brantford, ON in 1965, Peter Hoffer makes his home in Montréal, QC. In 1990 he graduated with Honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design. He then went on to complete a BFA at the University of Guelph, and a Masters of Fine Art at Concordia University. Hoffer has exhibited extensively across Canada, Europe and the U.S. His work is held in major corporate, public and private collections. Hoffer's contemporary paintings have been described as being as much about studio materials and techniques as the subjects they convey. He begins these paintings of landscapes and waterfalls with oil paint on wood panels or torn canvas pieces. As an integral part of the process, he cracks, stresses and subjects the layers of paint to great washes of runny paint which stain the foregrounds. The paintings are finished with thick coatings of glass-like resin so that viewers standing before them become part of the scenery itself as their reflections are superimposed.
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