According to Peter Bol, the art of painting can transform reality into an experience: we feel the tragic nature of a moment’s transience and are moved by the fragile illusion of the individual beauty of things. The commonplace becomes, in re-evaluation, the extraordinary.

Peter Bol’s decisive “back to nature” is a reaction against the cold modernism and the unyielding and empty aesthetic that the American entertainment industry has inflicted on the world. For this born painter, symbolic representation is no artistic deficiency; it is essential to the representation of the endless diversity of natural phenomena.

For Peter Bol, the essence of painting cannot be found in focussing on innovation, but rather in building a bridge between the material and the immaterial world. “My paintings look - and I hope they do – as if they do not belong to any time period. Neither backwards nor forwards. And certainly not as fashion dictates! My paintings do not offer an illusion of reality. They are a portrait of life. A window into eternity. I see things with happy eyes, as if they are being revealed to me and only me, according to their most true and profound nature.”