Peter Bergeron was born and raised in Connecticut. After attending the Paier School of Art in Hamden he began his career as a representational painter. In the 1980s, Bergeron worked as a freelance illustrator for local publications and later began painting large scale billboards for Patrick Media in Hartford, in which he painted oversize images of people, beer bottles, automobiles, hamburgers and a variety of other images. In 1990, he began studying with Frank Covino of Waitsfield, Vermont where he was trained in the classical academic approach to painting, starting with a detailed under painting and superimposing many layers of colored glazes. His work is greatly inspired by the early American painters of the Hudson River School and the Tonalist painters of that period. |
