Peter Doig

-p-Survey by Adrian Searle, Interview by Kitty Scott, Focus by Catherine Grenier, Artist's Choice by Hannes Schneider - Arnold Fanck, Writings by Peter Doig-/p--p--ul--li-Peter Doig (b.1959) is a pioneering artist whose work has charted a new direction in contemporary painting -/li--li-Doig's work has never been presented in a monograph of this scope -/li--li-His paintings depict atmospheric landscapes, sometimes glimpsed beneath washes of hallucinogenic colour, at other times through nets of thickly patterned marks -/li--li-Combining found images (including film stills, album covers and newspaper clippings) with visions of his Canadian childhood and landscapes from his studio in Trinidad, Doig has created a painted world that is uniquely his own -/li--li-Educated in London, his home for nearly twenty years, Doig continues to influence the latest generation of British painters -/li--/ul--/p-