Unique Muskoka August
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through life,” he says. “So<br />
mine was the creative<br />
problem-solving mind and a<br />
sense of rightness. I know when<br />
something is off.”<br />
While his focus is mainly<br />
impressionist fine art, his work<br />
has ranged from painting,<br />
photography, building design,<br />
graphic design, boat design,<br />
commissioned portraiture, and<br />
custom work commissioned<br />
by corporate clients. He has had exhibitions<br />
throughout North America and has earned a<br />
number of awards, including a Golden<br />
Squeegee Award/ World’s Best Serigraph from<br />
the Screen Printers Association. He created the<br />
silkscreen work in collaboration with Michael<br />
Caza of Atelier D’Art in Paris, France, who is<br />
world-renowned for his work with Picasso,<br />
Miro, Chagall and Dali.<br />
Fromme-Douglas has worked in all<br />
mediums and enjoys the creative stimulation<br />
that comes with mastering a new technique.<br />
For example, he will take a photograph and<br />
transform it using a different medium and<br />
his 30 years of photo editing and manipulating<br />
skills.<br />
“There’s a constant desire for me to come<br />
up with something that no one else has done.<br />
That’s what drives me to the next thing,” he<br />
says.<br />
Fromme-Douglas is currently working<br />
with 500 of more than 1,500 black and<br />
white photos from the<br />
Cameron Peck boat collection.<br />
These photos, which<br />
have not been seen by the<br />
public, feature boats that<br />
Peck had either built or<br />
acquired. These boats were<br />
seen around Lake of Bays and<br />
the <strong>Muskoka</strong> area in the ‘20s,<br />
‘30s and ‘40s. Since he was a<br />
boy, Peck and his family used<br />
to travel from Chicago, IL to<br />
the Baysville area for their summer vacations.<br />
He later became a boat enthusiast and<br />
amassed a collection of 40 to 50 boats and<br />
steamers. Some of the vessels were stored at<br />
the Baysville Marina, which he once owned.<br />
Fromme-Douglas stumbled upon the images<br />
when a friend had a CD that contained a<br />
small sampling of the photos.<br />
In addition, Fromme-Douglas is also<br />
working on a series of new art titled<br />
Movement. He started it last summer and<br />
Top: Peter Fromme-Douglas created this massive John Lennon painting, A Crack In The Wall, which is on display in his Port Carling gallery.<br />
Above: Fromme-Douglas stands next to his wall of “romanticized” historic photographs of <strong>Muskoka</strong>. He is currently working with 500 of more than 1,500<br />
black and white photos from the Cameron Peck boat collection. These photos have not been seen by the public and feature boats that Peck had either<br />
built or acquired, seen around Lake of Bays and the <strong>Muskoka</strong> area in the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s.<br />
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