Peter Burman was born in Suffolk in 1950. A self-taught artist he began painting full time at an early age in 1964. Over a long and successful career he has forged a reputation as one of East Anglia’s finest landscape painters. Working in the traditional manner, Peter produces larger scale studio works from watercolour sketches executed en plein air in the natural environment. He has painted in Venice, Provence and Elba but it is for his distinctive views of the English south coast and his native East Anglia that he is best known. His work uniquely captures the wonderful atmosphere characteristic to the Suffolk and Norfolk countryside: lush meadows, river estuaries, the sandy coast and the incomparable towering skies that have inspired British landscape painters for centuries. His artistic influences span the centuries from the loose brushstrokes of a Gainsborough landscape via the Norwich School, to perhaps his greatest influence, the Norfolk painter Edward Seago.
Peter’s work may be found in private and public collections both in this country and abroad. He has exhibited extensively worldwide, holding solo shows for many years in Mayfair, London, Ohio, USA and Osaka, Japan. He has shown at the Upstairs Gallery at The Royal Academy of Arts, London from 1981-90.
