Peter Delman is a Jersey City painter whose current work focuses on environmental themes.
“My paintings search for the spark of magic in such subjects as kelp and cactus: humble, but also strange and fascinating. I find sources in aquariums and greenhouses, but my most prized images come from the wild. I’ve found the right image when it somehow matches a shape in my inner landscape. As Ishmael puts it in Moby Dick, “It is not down in any map, true places never are.”
A previous series of paintings explores historical subjects. He curated a major exhibition on this theme in 2018 at New Jersey City University.
peterdelmanjc@gmail.com