Dowling Walsh Gallery

Peter Poskas

Peter Poskas was born in Waterbury Connecticut in 1939. Although interested in art he studied forestry and wildlife management at the University of Connecticut. He eventually was drawn back to art and enrolled at the Paier Art School in New Haven, Connecticut where he studied commercial art. After a year he enrolled at the Hartford Art School to study painting, graduating in 1964. He continued his studies in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst MFA program.

Poskas began his career painting roads and architecture of his hometown though, by 1975 he moved to Washington in Litchfield County, Connecticut where he found inspiration in the rural landscape and aging small farms. In the early 1990s Poskas began to visit Monhegan Island, Maine where he has found renewed inspiration in the light, water and architecture. Poskas often revisits familiar scenes capturing them in a new way or season. Rural farms or coastal homes he manages to portray the feeling of a particular place.

Peter Poskas' paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1970. His work is in prestigious private and public collections throughout the country. In 1995 Peter Poskas was named the Connecticut Artist of the Year by Fairfield University.

Source: Spanierman Gallery, "Peter Poskas: A Sense of Place"