Everything Is Borrowed

About

Moosey London is delighted to announce their first solo exhibition with Stockholm based artist Peter Jeppson.The exhibition will launch on Thursday 14th April, 6pm - 8pm. Drinks included!

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.”

Peter’s process in general is quite simple: “I paint a base layer, I sketch on a small piece of paper or direct on the wall beside the canvas, I add colour in the same range and work with shadows etc. I am always very careful with these lines, since I don't want the piece to become too cartoon like. I try to keep it as sloppy as possible with larger and quick brush strokes. I love when the colours drip, and find its way outside the motif. I love everything that gives the piece a messy feeling.”

Looking at the pieces for this show there are only the eyes and the expression that meets you. “This last year I have started to feel more comfortable and feel that I can manage to work within a larger scale. When experimenting with this format, I could focus even more than before on the expressions in the face, I wait until last minute to paint the objects that bare most feeling; eyes and mouth. I can repaint this many times just to get the right expression. I felt like working with this minimalistic style ever since I decided to work in a larger format.”
Peter creates his sculptures in parallel with his paintings. The sculptures created for the show are mixed materials, things he’s found that he likes in one way or another. The base construction is textile, which he sews to get the shape that he desires.

“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".

For more info please contact Ellie (london@mooseyart.co.uk)