City Art is a conservation framing workshop and gallery offering a range of museum-standard picture framing and art care services to artists, art collectors, museums and galleries.

Peter Carson

Peter Carson was born in Christchurch in 1938 and grew up on a farm in Harewood in north Christchurch. In 1953 he was apprenticed as a bookbinder at the Canterbury Public Library where he worked for ten years. At about the same time, he began drawing and painting, with the encouragement of John Summers, at whose bookshop he met Toss Woollaston. He later painted with Woollaston on the West Coast. Since the 1950s he has participated in a number of group and solo shows at Gallery 91, John Summers Bookshop (Charles Brasch purchased drawings from his first one-man show in 1963), Several Arts Gallery, the then C.S.A., Salamander Gallery and Under the Red Verandah. Work by Peter is also held at the Christchurch Art Gallery. After leaving his library job to pursue his interest in art, Peter moved to rural Canterbury where he continues to paint his distinctive landscapes in a style that is both primitive and luminous, regionally identifiable and visionary. “Each of Carson’s landscapes is the expression of an intensely regional vision, securely embedded in a recognisable South Island setting, yet always exploring for intimations of the universal beneath surface appearances. And for Carson the pathway to the universal is through the transcendent qualities of light" – Anthony Holcroft.

Gallery:

Peter Adsett
Mark Braunias
Marcus Capes
Peter Carson
Stephen Clarke
Allen Cox
Michael Dell
Andrew Drummond
Guy Frederick
Michael Hamblett
Jeffrey Harris
Roger Hickin
Maree Horner
Kathryn Madill
Michael Reed
Zina Swanson
Philip Trusttum