"Brighton Promenade"
 

"Stan Playing"

"Blue Piano" from the Laughing Dog Bookshop show "On a Musical Note" 2010. 

Six Months of AVA Drawings

by Stan Peskett

For a little more than six months in 2008, British artist Stan Peskett contributed front-page drawings to the Anderson Valley Advertiser. The complete collection of original renderings, over 30 pieces in all, will be on display at Lauren’s in Boonville beginning Tuesday, September 8th and running through the end of October.

A local resident since 2002, Stan Peskett got his start in the London art scene in the 1950s. His accomplishments in the world of interior design and mural painting have won him international acclaim for installations both public and private.  A versatile artist, Peskett also has a considerable body of work in “easel” painting, including many pieces created more recently, using the northern California landscape as his inspiration.

But it isn’t only the landscape that inspires Stan Peskett.  It’s also the local residents and sub-cultures he encounters in the community where he makes his home. In early 2008, the artist turned some of his observations---of local people, places, and events--- into black and white compositions which were featured for more than six months on the front page of another local phenomenon, the Anderson Valley Advertiser. These pieces, along with many of the original sketches that were used in their creation, form an affectionate, sometimes witty, and always skillfully rendered snapshot of half a year in the life of Anderson Valley, as seen through the eyes of Mike Believe (Stan’s cartoonist alter-ego since the SubGenius days). Although he is no longer featured in the AVA, Stan continues to chronicle the world around him in daily mixed-media compositions he posts to the journal section of this website click on vlog+RSS). 

Stan Peskett is an artist who has succeeded in mastering many skills not only as a painter, but also as an installationist, colorist, muralist, set- designer, and art director. Drawing and imagining a diverse range of subject matter and projects in a timely way has had him termed as "Visionary Eclectic".

His journals display much of the latter. Proving that "Visual Literacy" is a key factor in a growing world of non verbal communication.

He has played a blues and jazz piano for more than 50 years.

Many of the works seen on this site are available for purchace, from early 1970s journals, the latest online Vlogs, to original paintings and prints.

Stan is also available as artist, style consultant and mural painter. Please use the contact form to get in touch with him.

“Toontown Yapper” painted in 2007 when Stan Peskett was artist at Abbey Foundation’s Studio in Boonville. This work set the mood for the series. 

Please do contact me: info(a)stanpeskett.com or on facebook