Week 13 Research

 Peter Mc Lane 

Peter Mc Lane is a Frenchman born in Chamonix in 1945. He initially pursued a passion for music for 25 years. However, after discovering the Painter program, he shifted his focus to digital art. In 1994, he held his first digital art show in Paris. While emphasizing the uniqueness of his technique, Mc Lane acknowledges his respect for traditional painters, especially surrealists like Hieronymus Bosch, Tanguy, Dali, and Max Ernst. He was invited to Tokyo by Fuji for the first digital painting exhibition in Japan in 1995. After this, he did numerous exhibitions worldwide: Dubai, Geneva, Lausanne, Paris, New York, Florence, Brussels, and London. He has over 32 years of experience in digital art. He obtained the title of “Grand Master of Digital Painting at Moca (Museum of Computer Art in New York) in 2010. He currently resides in Vence on the south coast of the Riviera, and he divides his time between virtual art and a love for old cars. He uses the program Painter and a Wacom tablet to create. Mc Lane describes his work as purely a product of his imagination, created on a white screen using a stylus and a Wacom Tablet, simulating the process of a traditional painter. I chose a piece of his called Normandy. I like this piece because it is centered around a painting spreading over the “real world.” We can see an airplane flying and a multitude of other details. 

Peter Mc Lane website: https://www.peter-mclane.com