Peter Ferguson - The Wretches

Peter Ferguson – Paranormal Explorations – Artist Profile

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Peter Ferguson was born in Montreal, Canada in 1968. He set his sights on an illustration career after seeing the movie Star Wars, deciding that he would like to draw spaceships. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto in 1992, he began his career as a professional illustrator, using oil as his medium of choice. Peter’s brilliant ability to conceptualize clients’ ideas as well as his distinctive characters gave him a running start in the editorial and book publishing markets. Since signing with Three in a Box Inc, Peter’s career has grown steadily. His clients include Marvel Comics, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Mojo, Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Peter has also illustrated the covers of the popular Sisters Grimm collection.

Peter is also a highly sought after fine artist, who’s vividly imaginative works read like a lucid dream of an alternate history, recalling the aesthetic of Dutch Renaissance painting, old National Geographic photography, and 18th century British Naval history. Meticulously painted, Ferguson’s darkly humorous narratives evoke composite cities and landscapes from 16th Century Europe and early 20th century small town Americana (or Canadiana as the case may be). Combining grandiose narratives of the great ages of exploration with a distinctly paranormal bent, Ferguson’s work subtly hovers the line between fantasy, surrealism, and realism without ever falling into either of them fully. Luminously painted and complex in their composition, his paintings retain an air of both melancholy and wonder at days gone past.

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Peter Ferguson - Doppelganging

Peter Ferguson - Pride of Northumberland Best in Show

Peter Ferguson - Embassy

Peter Ferguson - Hunter

Peter Ferguson - The PLA Found a Giant

Peter Ferguson - Saint Hubert

Peter Ferguson - Wrack and Ruin

Peter Ferguson - The Subcontractors

Peter Ferguson - Roll Call, 8 AM

Peter Ferguson - Governess Undone

Peter Ferguson - Bring Us Back to the Sunlight, O Hairy Lord

Peter Ferguson - Klee Wyck

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