Biography
Peter Abram (1956), painter, sculptor, illustrator and art teacher from the Karst Region is one of the artists that rely on a few traits and a modest range of shades of colour. White spaces convey their own meanings in drawings, woodcuts and oil paintings, as well as the primitive texture of stone in his sculptures. His stories are seldom descriptions of the external world or actual people. What we see is rather a world of cognitive archetypes, which we only access in moments of consciousness and specific emotions: a sense of something more harmonious and safer than can be experienced in day-to-day dealings. His art talks about approaching states that we feel beyond fighting and transiency.
Peter Abram studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and continued his post-graduate education at the Academy of Arts of Ljubljana. He holds over 50 individual and 40 collective exhibitions on record, alongside a series of book illustrations, including the famous and continuously re-printed Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees, which Peter Abram embellished with colour woodcuts. In depicting nature, he remains committed to his native Karst in symbols, portraits and heirloom. His main challenge along all the years of creation continues to be to express everything that is timeless and beyond all boundaries. Peter Abram continues to deepen his sense of creative arts by exploring the primordial forces that are creating the forms of the manifest and dictating the principles of geometry, ancient architecture and man's approach to nature, as well as the intertwined faith of man and creation.