Peter Hoffer in 2025

Super Natural
06.03. - 29.03.2025

“But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy”  – Hermann Hesse, 1920

Peter Hoffer is known for his textural landscape paintings. Trained in both sculpture and painting, Hoffer’s attention to materiality is always evident in his work. He paints directly on wood panel and often leaves part of the surface visible. The artist finishes each painting with a clear resin, a material that he began using while studying at Concordia University in Montreal in the mid-1990s.

On his new painting series, the artist says: “I continue to contemplate the solitary tree by painting them. A sort of Autecology or Natural Science, and yet a meditation. Each tree has a foliage unique and imperfect. These imperfections are what lend it an identity unable to be  perfectly duplicated. As I focus on a tree, it rises before me, resolute and silent. I consider many of these paintings as portraits. I do paint plein air, although I prefer photographing the tree from several angles. Each shift in perspective changes the identity of the subject. The repositioning of branches and leaves reveal an altered pose.”