PETER FRIE – Landscape painting and sculpture

Opening Saturday 30 May at 13.00

Peter Frie (b. 1947) is a Swedish painter, based on the Bjäre Peninsula, known for his paintings of quiet, timeless landscapes where light is central. His paintings rarely depict specific places, but rather the memory or feeling of a landscape. Frie works in a traditional technique with oil on canvas. With muted colour scales and subtle shifts in light and atmosphere, Frie creates an atmosphere of silence and contemplation. What is central to his art is not nature itself, but our inner experience of it – how we remember and interpret nature’s presence.

Although Peter Frie is primarily known as a painter, he also works with sculpture, often with the same poetic and thoughtful expression as in his painting. His bronze sculptures are simple and stripped down, reminiscent of trees, natural forms or memorials.

The exhibition at RAVINEN will show paintings and sculptures.

Peter Frie was born in 1947 in Lysekil. Over the years he has exhibited at Lars Bohman Gallery and Bohman Knäpper Gallery in Stockholm, New Art Centre Roche Court/ Salisbury England, Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki and Galleri Arnstedt in Östra KarupHe has had solo exhibitions at, among other institutions at Thielska Galleriet in Stockholm, Kalmar konstmuseum, Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Lunds domkyrka. Abroad among other places at Haggerty Museum/ Milwaukee USA, Hämenlinna Art Museum/ Finland, and Picasso Museum/ Münster Germany. 

Peter Frie’s work is included in several collections, among other places at Moderna Museet/ Stockholm, Malmö Konstmuseum, KIASMA/ Helsingfors Finland, Serlachius Museum/ Mänttä Finland, Fries Museum/ Leeuwarden the Netherlands, Haggerty Museum of Art/ Milwaukee USA, as well as in several private collections in Sweden and abroad. Peter Frie was awarded the Finnish ARS Fennica Award in 1998.