Peter Rodulfo


Peter Rodulfo is a British artist and sculptor who spent much of his childhood travelling across India and Australia, before settling in Norwich, UK. He studied at the Norwich school of Art and Design from 1975 to 1979. While based in Norwich he has travelled extensively; he was artist in residence at The Barony of Fulwood Trust Foundation Goiana, Brazil in 2004, and artist in residence at Shenzhen, China during 2012–13 and in 2016, Artist in Residence at The Barony of Fulwood Trust, Open For Art Project at Fundao, Portugal.
Rodulfo re-located to the Norfolk coastal town of Great Yarmouth in 2012 where he is a member of the 'Yarmouth Six'. He is also, conjointly with Mark Burrell, a leading member of the art movement known as the North Sea Magical Realists.

Themes and influences

Rodulfo is a prolific painter, working predominantly in oils on canvas, occasionally in the medium of sculpture. His paintings are loosely associated in their imagery and symbolism to Magical Realism, exploring themes, often with great humour, such as love and loss, the erosion of memory, natural and fantasy landscape, the elements, along animals, real and imaginary.
His art is thematically and stylistically similar to the work of Paul Klee, Max Ernst and the British surrealist Leonora Carrington. However his influences, along with the subject-matter, style and imagery of his paintings remain wide and experimental, occasionally esoteric.
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Exhibitions

Rodulfo has now exhibited his paintings over a time-span of 35 years in many cities and countries, including France, Switzerland, Miami and New York, Brazil, Hong Kong and China, as well as throughout the UK.