Peter Eastman (1976) is a South African artist who works between Cape Town and Edinburgh. His practice is inspired by the Keurbooms Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, just outside of Plettenberg Bay, which is a sanctuary for indigeneous trees. Through the medium of oil on aluminium, Eastman's forest paintings are constantly evolving as he looks in different ways at the forest, always in flux, as it grows and dies and remakes itself, subtly changing each time he visit.
These paintings want you to get lost. They bring you closer. Time slows to the soft, fungal register. And you are in the thick of it; the constantly rotting revivifying more than human-world.