Peter Brooke: The Nature of Memory and Experience

By Glenn Suokko and Mitchell Manacek

Valise Print Artisans, Woodstock

2017

Hardcover, 10 x 8 ½ inches, 120 pages, 98 images

Presents over sixty selected paintings by Peter Brooke from over twenty-five years of work. Writer Alice Lyons takes the reader on a walk in the woods with Brooke, illustrating the physical and imaginative sources from which his paintings spring along the way. Essayist Grace-Yvette Gemmell provides insight into Brooke’s interpretation of the natural world as an instrument for painting the complex relationship between memory and experience. An interview with the artist in his studio by Mitchell Manacek and a photographic essay by Glenn Suokko provides insight into Brooke’s artistic history and creative process.