Peter lives and paints on his Moon Shadow Farm in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York.
To see Peters Paintings follow this link ....Peter Shulman Gallery
Peters huge peaceful war game can be seen herePeter Shulman's War ....
The Peter Shulman Fan Club built and maitained by his ex wives can be seen herePeter Shulman Fan Club ....
The Peter Shulman Licensing Trust which grants licenses to reproduce the images from Peter's paintings can be found herePeter Shulman Licensing Trust ....
Peter began his career as a painter in the mid 1960's with no formal training. Within three months after completion of his first painting, his Pop Art "Fried Egg" paintings were featured at the prestigious Bianchini Gallery in New York City next to the work of Pop Art icons Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Peter has never looked back. In the years since he began painting, his work has been in more than one hundred and ten (110) solo and four hundred (400) group exhibits.
He is a disciplined painter and a constant worker who trys to put brush to canvas most days of the year. Shulman's self-taught, striking, hard-edged style is immediately identifiable. More than 2,000 of his acrylic or oil paintings on canvas have been sold and are featured in museums, universities and corporate offices, as well as in prized private collections around the world.
Describing his work, Peter explains: "I am a concept painter. The subjects for my work start in my mind. It can take several years from the inception of a concept to its actually being drawn on canvas. What I hope to achieve is to stimulate the viewers enough to begin reflective thought. Whether they like the work or not is a matter of personal taste. If they have stopped, looked and thought, then I have achieved my goal."
"My style of painting is my own. I have never taken an art class so my methods and color sense come solely from within me. Each painting begins as a very detailed drawing. As I paint, I remove unnecessary detail to reveal the hard, central core of the subject. I love color and that is why pieces like the Carousel Horse paintings have a minimum of 35 colors. Having said that I should also note that in some subject areas I feel that just black and white with a possible spot of color bring forth the concept more forcefully. Pride and my Mother and Child series are examples of the impact simple black and white can achieve."
"After I finish each piece of work, a wonderful moment occurs. I stand back and think 'No Sh-t I actually created this.' There is a combined physical and mental feeling of joy that cannot be adequately put into words but many artists feel it. If that moment ever stops coming, I'll stop painting."
