Robert Peterson

Robert Peterson is a pastel artist accomplished at revealing a softer and innovative style to representing ordinary objects like eggs or fruit. Choice of palette, value control, and luscious light help to achieve a striking photo-realism quality within his pieces. Peterson’s meticulously detailed, yet minimalist still life pastels are stunning and remarkable. His images of fruits, vegetables, and shells have a photo realist quality to them that can only truly be appreciated in person. Each pastel draws the viewer into the secretive complexity of “simple” objects.