Artist Statement

John Robert Peck
Cortona, ITALY 2003
B.S. Physics, University of San Francisco
Master of Architecture, University of New Mexico
Diploma, Florence Academy of Art

My focus is portraiture.

I believe that both drawing and painting are fundamentally about a search for visual truth in nature- in the objects of still life, the landscapes around us and the faces and figures of models.

For me, the real work lies in an effort to establish and maintain an honest inner dialogue... essentially, to "turn off" my rational argument for "how something should look" and simply, honestly, plainly observe and record in pencil or paint what I do see.

For me, the portrait remains the single most important subject of painting- and I am a student for life in that search to see and record such beauty.

As a close friend once shared:

"If you seek the miraculous, look to the ordinary.
But look very carefully."



John Robert Peck Cortona, ITALY 2003		B.S. Physics, University of San Francisco Master of Architecture, University of New Mexico Diploma, Florence Academy of Art My focus is portraiture. I believe that both drawing and painting are fundamentally about a search for visual truth in nature- in the objects of still life, the landscapes around us and the faces and figures of models.