{"id":3446,"date":"2013-01-17T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:51:57","slug":"new-art-from-peter-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/new-art-from-peter-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"New Art From Peter Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/peter-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Ferguson<\/a> before but just as a refresher, he is a\u00a0is a mind-bogglingly talented Montreal artist that I have the good fortune to count amongst my friends. Ferguson has worked as an illustrator and artist for many years, and has done work for pretty much every Canadian magazine an illustrator could hope to work for and a slew of heavy-hitter international publications, plus a Marvel comic, plus\u00a0book illustration, plus gallery shows,\u00a0et cetera and soforth. In March he will be returning to Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle\u00a0and in advance of the show the gallery has released a sneak peek at some of the work he will be showing.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentleman, I present &#8220;The Opening Salvo of the Duck War&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3447\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3447\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3447\" alt=\"Peter Ferguson - the Opening Salvo of the Duck War\" src=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war.jpg 700w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Ferguson &#8211; the Opening Salvo of the Duck War &#8211; oil on panel, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I mean, really. This piece is amazing. If your mind is insufficiently blown, here&#8217;s a detail view:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3448\" alt=\"Peter Ferguson - the Opening Salvo of the Duck War (detail)\" src=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war-detail.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war-detail.jpg 700w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war-detail-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/peter-ferguson-the-opening-salvo-of-the-duck-war-detail-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be in Seattle in March, I strongly recommend visiting this show. If you&#8217;re interested in seeing some more of his work,\u00a0Ferguson is represented as an illustrator by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.threeinabox.com\/artist-portfolios\/ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three In A Box<\/a>, and more of his work can be seen\u00a0on his website. Of course there&#8217;s also an <a href=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/peter-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier post<\/a> on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned Peter Ferguson before but just as a refresher, he is a\u00a0is a mind-bogglingly talented Montreal artist that I have the good fortune to count amongst my friends. Ferguson has worked as an illustrator and artist for many years,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[348,129],"tags":[154,362,128,117,120,454,126,127,485,486],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art-2","category-painters","tag-canadian-art","tag-canadian-illustrator","tag-contemporary-art","tag-illustration","tag-illustrator","tag-montreal-illustrator","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-peter-ferguson","tag-roq-la-rue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-TA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}