Four pieces of my neon art are on display as part of the Toronto Light Festival in the front windows flanking the main entrance of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. The festival, now in its third year, runs from January 18 to March 3, 2019. The pieces, “Ceci N’est Pas Illuminé”, “Neon Cave Art”, “Cover… Continue Reading
My new film “Art War” now completed! Here’s the logline: An interactive film, in which the audience participates as part of a blind jury for an art academy whose decision could save the lives of 80 million people. Telling me than that would give away the story of it too much.. Festival release date to… Continue Reading
“Biograph Girl” is a great novel by William J.Mann I’ve optioned. It’s now a terrific script for a feature film that I’ve co-written with Jennifer Dale, Barry Pearson and Raymond Storey. I am currently packaging the film with the aim of producing it in early 2019. Continue Reading
Lots of new painting going on these days. Here’s a new one titled “Licorice Allsorts – Hard to Spell, Easy to Eat”. My paintings and photographs are now on my Instagram peterrowepicsandpaint and news about exhibitions, etc. can be found at my Facebook page Have a look! Continue Reading
I have a new exhibition of my paintings at the Curran Gallery at 1027 Queen St. East in the Leslieville Studio district, opening Friday, Sept 23. I’ll have some of my “Animology” paintings, a couple of early ones from my new series “Paintings on Painting”, and some others, such as the Donald Trump portrait shown… Continue Reading
I have a new solo exhibition of photographs and paintings titled “Images of the Wild” at the Ben Navaee Gallery in Toronto from July 15 to 28, 2016. The paintings are all new ones from my “Animology” collection. The photographs are large 4 foot blow-ups taken around the world, printed on glowing acrylic, the prints… Continue Reading
Snapd Magazine showed up to cover the opening of my “Animology” exhibit at Creeds Coffee Bar. Here’s the photo spread from their digital edition. Continue Reading
Here’s the great view from my new studio, with a late afternoon storm coming in across Lake Ontario as the sun sets in the west. Continue Reading
One of the most unusual of “Angry Planet” episodes was the story of our trip to Brazil to search for the lost boats of the 1914 Theodore Roosevelt expedition down the River of Doubt, later named the Rio Roosevelt. Deep in Amazonia, we chased caimans, ran white water and explored the climate changes affecting the… Continue Reading
Pivot TV premiered our Angry Planet Polar Bear episode Friday, April 29 across the US. We filmed it last August on the shores of Hudson Bay. That’s me on the left, in green with George (in yellow) in front of me. I knew that if the bear attacked, I didn’t have to run faster than… Continue Reading