Artist Newsletter

Welcome to the new website at Peacheysarthouse.com

Over the past few weeks, while quietly rebuilding and refreshing the site, I’ve been adding little notes to the homepage. So… here I am again. Restarting the blog and newsletter. Reaching out to reconnect with those of you who have followed my work for some time — and hopefully welcoming a few new readers along the way.

One thing, thankfully, has not changed: I haven’t stopped painting.

The oil of the sailing boat mentioned a couple of weeks ago is now dry enough to scan properly and is on the website — always an exciting stage. Oils do like to take their time. Ideally, they should dry for six to twelve months before being considered fully cured, but this one was ready enough for a careful capture. There’s something deeply satisfying about seeing the finished texture and light preserved digitally, even though the real magic remains in the surface of the paint itself.

At the moment, I’m immersed in a completely new challenge. I’m working on an image spread across three A3 stretched canvas panels, designed to come together as one unified piece. In practical terms, that means I’m essentially creating three large oil paintings at once — so it’s taking me about three times as long as usual!

What makes this project especially intriguing (at least for me) is that it’s neither a landscape nor a portrait. That probably raises more questions than it answers — but I’m going to let you wonder a little longer. The reveal will come in due course.

For now, everything is progressing exactly as planned. The layers are building beautifully, the composition is holding together across the panels, and I’m enjoying the slower rhythm that working at this scale demands.

It feels good to be painting a way of observing, reflecting, and sharing something of the world as I see it.

Thank you for being here, for following along, and for supporting this next chapter at Peacheysarthouse. More updates (and that reveal!) will be coming soon.