Peter The Roman is a digital artist from the UK who spent over 15 years in traditional art before moving fully into digital work. Their work centers on everyday objects and sculptures smothered by garish, melting organic blob forms that are at once grotesque and beautiful, caught in a constant state of flux.
They have said the computer screen became their primary creative outlet during periods when phobias kept them from leaving the house, one lasting as long as two years. In the ongoing series Porcelain Dreams, Unearthly Blooms, and Imaginary Paintings, they combine 3D modelling, collage and artificial intelligence to produce imaginary sculptures and paintings that exist only as digital images. They have said they long for these forms to stand physically in a gallery, but find a strange comfort in their unreality, and describe the AI they work with as if it too wanted its own existence to be real.
