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Peter Doig

ピーター・ドイグ　/　ぴーたー・どいぐ

Painter from United Kingdom

April 17, 1959 (age 67)　・　Edinburgh, United Kingdom

painter
draftsperson
etcher

My Take

Peter Doig is, for my money, one of the most quietly compelling painters working today. Born in Edinburgh in 1959, he's lived a genuinely nomadic life across England, Scotland, Canada, Trinidad, the USA and Germany, and you can feel that drift in his dreamlike, half-remembered landscapes. Winning the John Moores Painting Prize in 1993 marked him as a serious figure, and his long Trinidad chapter from 2002 to 2021 clearly soaked into his palette before he returned to London. I love that he revived painting as a vehicle for mood and memory at a moment when many declared the form exhausted; his canvases reward slow, patient looking.

Overview

Peter Doig ( DOYG; born 17 April 1959) is a British painter who has lived and worked between England, Scotland, Trinidad, Canada, the USA and Germany. He settled in Trinidad with his family between 2002 and 2021, when he moved back to London.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Peter Doig
Name (Japanese): ピーター・ドイグ
Reading: ぴーたー・どいぐ
Born: April 17, 1959 (age 67)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Boar
Origin: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: painter / draftsperson / etcher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Chelsea College of Art and Design

Awards & achievements

1993 John Moores Painting Prize

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B0

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