Peter Jeppson's "Everything is Borrowed."
Opening on Thursday, April 14th at Moosey London in London, England is artist Peter Jeppson's solo exhibition, "Everything is Borrowed."
Peter Jeppson is a self taught artist who started his career with graffiti, which led into illustration/graphic design and further now into drawings, oil painting and most recently sculptures. Bubbling with texture and vivid emotions, Jeppson paints his characters with complicated expressions that are not so easily understood, making them anything but one-dimensional. “I decided to give painting a chance. Initially I forced myself not to work within any lines at all, just to get away from drawing. I worked with so much detail when I sketched, I wanted another expression, something more quick, sloppy and direct."
“Everything is borrowed originally called something else, but during the final work, the terrible thing we see today in Ukraine occurred, which suddenly felt ignorant not to address. The title - from a song by The Streets - is for me a phrase that reminds me, now more than ever, not to take anything for granted. I have painted pencils and cigarettes as a biographical symbol for a while now, in these recent paintings the pencil is carrying wooden logs, sitting down and wondering, interacting with other creatures to find balance in life. Although there are almost never any backgrounds in the paintings, nor any objects to interact with. There are feelings but not in relation to objects, this also refers to the song mentioned above; "I came to this world with nothing and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed"
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