Peter Cleverley : Between Transience and Eternity

This beautiful, heavily illustrated book tracesPeter Cleverleys formation and evolution asan artist, identifying the myriad influencesthat aroused in him a profound sense of thetransience of human life and the paradoxicalcomplexity of the human condition.

Theportrait that results shows how Cleverleys senseof the human condition has allowed him toconvey it symbolically in a way that simultaneouslycaptures not only the fragility of humanlife, but also its joys. His art communicates anappreciation of the beauty of this world andthe gift of being alive, together with the valueof art as a means of transcending mutability.Cleverley is a painter whose work is destinedto be recognised for making an importantcontribution to the history of art in AotearoaNew Zealand.