Pete Groves

Pete Groves was born in Melbourne where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design at Swinburne Institute of Technology. He began to make a living from painting while living for several years in Mexico.

Pete exhibits in numerous solo and group art exhibitions each year and his work is represented in private collections in Australia, the USA, Japan and London, including the BHP Billiton London collection.

Painting is the way Pete recreates and relives observations and experiences.

“It's my way of appreciating and celebrating a memory and reliving it. And when someone looks at my paintings, I'm able to share that memory with them.”

Pete’s paintings tend to have a lyrical quality that conjures a reality far from the austerity of the everyday. He creates an atmosphere, a world, where harmony exists between nature and the man-made. A stark contrast exists between the serenity of his paintings and the anxiety of the modern world. Nature and the man-made intersect often, in varying degrees. On initial analysis some elements may seem implausible, but somehow realism exists within fantasy.