Roses by Peter Nisbet
executed with Alchemist Mediums
Sea of Cortez by Peter Nisbet executed with Alchemist Mediums
"As to the mediums used for the rose painting... I used Painting and Grinding medium for the under painting, Linseed thin and thick for the subsequent layers. I applied a very thin final rub of amber medium over the dried final surface to act as a varnish. It had a beautiful luster and was impressive once framed.
I am convinced that the mediums imparted "oldness" to the overall presentation, a kind of authenticity that I have never seen before in my own work. I don't know if that makes any sense..."
P.A. Nisbet
Biography
P.A. Nisbet (Peter Allen Nisbet) was born in North Carolina in 1948 and began the study of painting at age ten. He has been a student of fine art for thirty- eight years, beginning in watercolors and proceeding to oils by age 25. He received a liberal arts degree from the University of North Carolina followed by a commission in the United States Navy. He served as a line officer at sea with a ten-month tour of duty in Vietnam. During that time he was appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to serve as Director of Art Services for the Navy's Office of Information. Following Naval Service in 1974 he commenced a free-lance commercial art business providing graphic design and illustration for over twenty-five national organizations.
In 1980 he located in the Southwest and began painting landscapes. Since then he has completed and sold hundreds of paintings, which are derived from experiences throughout the world. Nisbet has traveled to such remote places as the South Pole and China, but his preferred locale for painting is in the deserts of the Southwest and Mexico. The Munson Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, and the J.N. Bartfield Gallery in New York City represent him.
