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Artworks
Peter Cheung Chinese / Canadian, b. July 19, 1952
Go Where the Four Winds Blow, 2026oil on canvas36 x 60 insigned bottom leftCAD 4,500.00Peter Cheung’s Go Where the Four Winds Blow is a dramatic equestrian painting filled with motion, colour and atmosphere. A group of horses charges forward across the centre of the...Peter Cheung’s Go Where the Four Winds Blow is a dramatic equestrian painting filled with motion, colour and atmosphere. A group of horses charges forward across the centre of the composition, emerging from a dense, expressive landscape of trees, light and shadow. The horses are loosely but powerfully rendered, with flashes of white, chestnut, black and blue-grey suggesting bodies in motion rather than still portraiture.
The background is highly painterly, with tall vertical forms that read as trees or forest silhouettes set against a glowing orange-yellow sky. The upper portion has a sunset or autumnal feeling, while the lower half is filled with cooler blues, purples and greens. This contrast gives the painting a sense of energy and elemental force, as if the horses are moving through wind, light and changing weather.
Cheung’s brushwork is quick and expressive. The horses’ legs, manes and tails dissolve into sweeping strokes, while the ground beneath them becomes an abstract mixture of reflections, leaves, dust and colour. The title Go Where the Four Winds Blow fits the image well: the horses seem untamed, moving freely through an open, shifting landscape.
Provenance
- direct from artist