Petit tableau original Peter Oliver bateau rouge bois flotté Hepworth 2024 Gallery Bath

Painting by Peter Oliver on found driftwood, in its original glazed honey oak frame, with a label for the Anthony Hepworth Gallery verso. This is a small painting, measuring 29cms approx, and 3.5 cms deep. The Tate Gallery has some of this artists work, and there is plenty of information about him online.

Peter Oliver (1927–2006)

Circa 1990 - There was a 1999 Anthony Hepworth Bath exhibition which included these Breton boat & landscape paintings. The boards are drift pieces found on the Bay of Audierne, known as the “Long Beach” by Peter. The skeletal old boats were painted mostly at Le Guilvinec

This piece was saved in 2019 after the death of Aileen, Peter's wife. The entire collection of oils was stored in a small stone barn at the Bath house since 1980

From the description of a similar painting in the series on the Studio Cennan Website