The highly anticipated solo exhibition of renowned Canadian painter Peter Burega is now open at NoonPowell Fine Art, through to January 25 2026. The exhibition marks the artist’s inaugural showcase in the UK.
Known for his evocative land and seascapes, Crossing the Light Sublime brings together 11 stunning oil paintings on canvas, created during the artist’s time spent in two dramatically contrasting locations: the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten and the arid mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The paintings in Crossing the Light Sublime explore the profound connection between landscape and memory, drawing on the artist’s deep reflections on how place shapes both our history and our present lives.
For Burega, these two vastly different environments – the tropical island and the high desert – offer a surprising commonality, one rooted in history, exploration, and the light that imbues both places. Through a unique synthesis of cloudscapes, distant vistas, and a keen sensitivity to the way light plays across the land, Burega creates a dialogue between the two locales that is both contemplative and visually arresting.
Crossing the Light Sublime is a story of history and the present. The consideration of how our lives are affected by the places where we live and visit. Both places could not be more different yet they share an uncanny commonality when considered in my work. Each provides distant vistas and cloud formations that evoke a time long forgotten. Both exhibit a development that came about after exploration and religion brought a light both harsh and warm.
Dogs Upon the Water, 2025
Burega’s work captures the paradox of nature’s dualities, where organic and linear, man-made and natural forces collide. His compositions evoke a palpable sense of energy and tension between order and chaos, structure and amorphousness, infusing his canvases with a dynamic, poetic force. Often described as Turneresque, Burega’s landscapes possess expansive skies and the ethereal filtering of light that have made his work so distinctive. His ability to convey the splendor of light – whether the bright, harsh rays of the Caribbean or the soft, filtered sunlight of the American West – is one of the defining features of his art.
This new body of work invites viewers to journey through a reflective, almost otherworldly vision of the places that have shaped the artist’s experience. It is a testament to the power of light, both physical and metaphorical, to bridge the gap between past and present, land and sea, and the natural world and human history.
About Peter Burega
Peter Burega is an internationally recognized artist known for his captivating landscapes, particularly his masterful treatment of light and form.
Represented by major galleries across the United States, Burega’s work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections worldwide. His paintings are celebrated for their ability to evoke both the fleeting and the timeless aspects of nature, with each piece balancing a tension between the organic and the structured.
Header: For the Sky and For the Sea (no.2)
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