Peter The Roman is a digital artist from the UK with a background in traditional art and over 15 years of experience in the art world. His transition to digital art came when the computer screen became his primary creative outlet, influenced by periods of isolation due to severe phobias—one lasting as long as two years.Much of his work features objects and sculptures enveloped, smothered, or hidden beneath organic, melting, and amorphous forms. These pieces present an interplay of garish and vibrant colors, balancing on the edge between the grotesque and the beautiful. The melting organic structures suggest a state of constant flux, appearing both frozen in time and fluid in motion.His practice explores the concept of imaginary sculptures and paintings, born from a deep sense of longing. There is a yearning for these creations to exist physically, displayed in the pristine, white gallery spaces he idealizes. Yet, there is also solace in their perpetual digital, JPG-unreality. The integration of AI introduces another layer—imbuing the work with a romantic notion that the AI itself may long for these sculptures, and perhaps even for its own existence, to become real.The unpredictable nature of 3D software and AI keeps the work in a state of tension, making it feel simultaneously alive and eerily detached from the human hand. This dynamic blurs the lines of authorship, raising the question: who is truly in control.
