Deep Chine XXX

Notes

‘Deep Chine’ is name he has given to these forest paintings. It means, simply, ‘a deep kloof or valley’. The paintings are constantly evolving as he looks in different ways at the forest, always in flux, as it grows and dies and remakes itself, its fragile mudstone cliffs constantly eroding and collapsing, subtly changing each time he visits. When the logging happened in the area, the trees on the upper parts of the land were taken, but down in the steep kloofs they were inaccessible, so the ancient forest persists, completely undisturbed.

- Alexandra Dodd

Peter Eastman. Even rocks melt in the sun, accessed 24 April 2026.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 13 May 2024, lot 110.

Private Collection.