Echuca, Victoria
Quadriplegic oil painter, go figure that one out
Prize Finalist
Artworks: 40
Pete Conroy creates portraits with a difference. He likes to paint people in a way that there is as much interest in the way it was painted as interest in the model his/her self.
Pete exaggerates peoples features onto the canvas, then applies paint attempting to bring them back to reality. Sometimes the images remain too cartoony, sometimes he brings them back too far and they’re too realistic. But sometimes they have one foot in each category a classically painted portrait with a twist of something else.
When my work has a foot in each of these two realms is when I feel it has become a success.
Pete is also a finalist in the 2022 Art Lovers Australia Prize.
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