I am a painter and have lived in northern Vermont for over 30 years. My studio is located in close proximity to the mountains and national forrest. Prior to that, I lived in New Haven Connecticut. The origins of my work are landscape and nature. I am informed by color, pattern, and design.

I earned degrees from New England College (BFA) and the Yale University School of Art (MFA) and have exhibited in juried, group, and one-person shows in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.

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What began as paintings based on a distillation of landscape evolved to work based on the miraculous markings found on the Trout species. Their markings, random and ordered, include vermiculation, parr marks, spots and halos. The color is earth-rich and varied from black to brown, ochre to moss green, and blue to red. In time, during hikes and fishing in the woods, I began to see similar randomness —and order —in the bark of various tree species. I was drawn to the endlessly subtle and extreme gradations in texture and earth colors; chalk white to cold black, light ochre to raw umber, orange to burnt sienna and the unique patterns and striations, created from growth and decay. Close observation of bark sections gradually led to limbs, branches, flowers and close proximity landscape. Critical to my pursuit is an attempt to impart the beauty of the natural world by direct observation of the subject.

I am interested in reframing the landscape genre by exploring the intimate proximity of things and places in relation to vistas, a more classical approach to landscape painting.

My pursuit is a method of painting as a means to re-orient the way in which one sees the natural world. I intend my paintings to be intimate and tactile, creating subtle variations of texture and color to promote slow discovery and reveal. In this way, realism and abstraction can become intertwined. From macrocosm to microcosm, observation is slowed down.

There is freedom in the making; the decisions made during the painting process are mine alone. Getting a painting to work is a balance between the love of the subject and the medium.

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For more information and/or purchase: pfjoslin@gmail.com

 Selected Exhibitions

One Person Exhibitions

Peter Joslin: Paintings: McCoy Gallery, MA, 2018

Trout Markings and Landscapes, Souterrain Gallery, West Cornwall, CT, 2018

Paintings, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1991

Paintings, Madison Gallery, Madison, CT, 1989

Peter Joslin: Collage, The Berkley Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1982

Selected Group Shows

New Haven Paint and Clay Club annual exhibition, New Haven, CT 2025

Small Works Juried Exhibit, Five Points Arts, Torrington, CT 2024

Selects 2024, First Street Gallery, New York, NY 2024

Winter Juried Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY 2024

Kindred: new_new art studio, Burlington, VT 2023

Eckert Fine Art: MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2022

Five Points Gallery Juried Exhibition, Torrington, CT 2021

Realism-Encountering the Real, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2020

Lines of Site, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, 2020

Pushing Paper, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2018

Burlington Chamber Music Festival, 2018

Burlignton Chamber Music Festival, 2014

Connecticut Artists, Stamford, CT, 1990

Artist at Erector Square, New Haven, CT, 1989

New Talent Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1985

17 from New Haven, General Electric Corporation Headquarters, Fairfield, CT, 1982

33rd Annual New England Exhibition of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture,Silvermine Guild of Artist, New Cannan, CT, 1982

32nd Annual New England Exhibition of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Silvermine Guild of Artist, New Cannan, CT, 1981