Csorba Peter (b. 1994, Marosvasarhely, Transylvania, Romania) is a Hungarian American painter. He works primarily with oils. He experiments with mixed media in his sketches as a fundamental step to his process. His background is mathematics and physics (University of Florida alumni) and he worked a number of years in industry. He currently lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He is inspired by the landscape and people that he interacts with on a day-to day basis and his work is an expression of the beauty he finds in his perceived environment and social interactions. His motivation was the same in his technical career, but he found it insufficient in expressing what he perceives or in other words, lacking the ability to express his authentic voice. Rather with color, tone, and form he found that he can form a reaction to the beauty he encounters.
Peter’s process commences at the handcrafting of custom raw canvas for his work. He finds that he must be connected with each of his unique pieces right down to the raw materials that they are born from. Sketching is fundamental to the process by which the artist’s pieces are born, as the works are expressions of his feelings gathered from the surrounding environment and translated onto canvas. Peter utilizes live models for his portraiture to facilitate interactions that are crucial to capturing a person’s nature, rather than simply what is to be seen by the naked eye.
