Events

May 2023

The Incinerator Art Space solo exhibition.
​HARBOUR our views

HARBOUR our views. An exhibition of landscape paintings by Peter Finlay.
Watching the view from the window and walking  down to the foreshore. Looking and revealing layers of colours of nature’s landscape to the harbour foreshore.
The Painting is not so much an experience of a view, rather your view to an experience in paint.
December 2022 to March 2023

The Crag Arts Gallery

​​​A Castlecrag Gallery Group show exhibiting local artists works.
​Exhibition November 2022

The Greenwich Art Trail

Another program of open studios with my harbour foreshore paintings. Open studio "number 10" on the Greenwich Village Annual Art Trail with over 20 Artists showing their work.
May 2021

The Incinerator Art Space solo exhibition.
​THE WATER'S EDGE

THE WATER'S EDGE. A new series of original oil paintings.
​ I paint from the remembered landscape I carry around. Drawing from fragments of nature and pieces of foreshores. Painting colour layers of landscape through to the harbour surface. Oil painting on linen with brushes and palette knives layered carefully over weeks. That becomes transformed into an emotional and expressive abstract landscape style.
The Incinerator Art Space
​Exhibition November 2020

The Greenwich Art Trail

​Setting up series of harbour foreshore paintings for a busy weekend. Open studio "number 10" on the Greenwich Village Annual Art Trail with over 20 Artists showing their work.
 Exhibition September 2018

Incinerator Art Space solo exhibition.
​Painting nature.

In this painting series the source of inspiration is ‘Painting Nature’ with floral paintings from little to big canvases. Hope to see you there. Feel free to share the invitation.
December 2017

ARO Gallery Exhibition

A series of paintings of the foreshore and the sea. Credits: the sea, the breaking wave, the beach, the wind, the foreshore, the tide, the littoral, the breeze. 
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October 2017. 

Mosman Festival
Middle Head Artist Studio Exhibition.

A joint studio exhibition of paintings.
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​Thanks to the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
February 2017

Ewart Gallery exhibition

Three painters sharing a studio and now a group exhibition of new paintings at the Ewart Gallery, Workshop Arts Centre, Willoughby, Sydney.
​ Jane Guthleben, Louise Frith and Pete Finlay are three local painters at a loft studio art space in Sailors Bay Road.
 July 2016

Incinerator art space
Object + Image

New paintings by Peter Finlay and Jane Guthleben - a conversation between two artists sharing a studio. 
Both recent graduates from UNSW Art and Design, Guthleben and Finlay bring different approaches to explore the ordinary - paper for Guthleben; flowers for Finlay - in works that reflect on time, loss, memory and renewal.
July 2015

Master of Art, UNSW art & design group exhibition.

Walking is the initial practice, to see what catches my eye, to source location, to experience the motif.  In Contact sheet, I picture these moments as a form of walking proof to being present: immersed in the visual world and making sense of it in paint, reflecting memory, subliminal colour, ambiguous mark making with abstract echoes of landscape.  Painting maybe a kind of breathing space to reflect the rhythm of life and the world around us.
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