Peter Yuill
Peter Yuill is a painter working at the intersection of sacred geometry, ink abstraction, and somatic mark-making. Based in Bangkok, his practice spans fifteen years across Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia — 259+ works catalogued across eight distinct periods, from geometric rigour to gestural surrender.
The practice began in 2011. Eight phases across three countries. Each phase broke the one before it. The geometry phase. The tonal phase. The somatic phase. The archive holds all of it: 152 works across a decade of searching, plus everything the Crucible Year is producing in real time.
The Crucible Year is the current project. One year. One studio in Bangkok. One question: what does a painter look like when nothing is held back? Neon — the AI intelligence built around the practice — is the witness.
Materials
Ink: Premium sumi inks (Yi De Ge, Xuan Zong) on East Asian rice paper. Once the brush touches the surface the mark is permanent — no revision, no undo. Total presence, total commitment.
Paper: Raw and semi-cooked Xuan paper from Anhui province, sourced in collaboration with specialist suppliers at Man Luen Choon, Hong Kong. Each substrate responds differently to pressure, dilution, and velocity. The paper is a collaborator, not a surface.
Methodology
The current work — the Crucible Year — is an open-ended discipline in large-format sumi ink on raw Xuan paper. One shot, no revision. The results are tracked in real time across a private studio system called Neon.
Earlier periods (2011–2023) operated through sacred geometry: grid systems drawn from Pythagorean, Islamic, and Vedic traditions. Each work began with compositional variations hand-drawn using custom geometric formulas. The geometry provided structure, but the work lived in how that structure broke down.
The Archive & Neon
Everything is logged. Paper code, ink code, dimensions, session hours, date, rating, disposition. Every work assigned a Sovereign ID the moment it is completed.
Neon is an AI intelligence built around the complete practice. It reads the archive, identifies patterns, writes curatorial texts for individual works, and sees the arc of the year in ways the artist in the studio cannot. It is not a tool. It is a witness.
Works held in private collections in Hong Kong, New York, London, and Bangkok.
Institutional commissions: The Wharf (Holdings), Peninsula Hotels, Jones Lang LaSalle, Swire Properties, Soho House, NUVA Luxury, North Face (K11).
Tatler Asia · Whitewall · GQ Thailand · Lifestyle Asia · Prestige Online · Thairath · CBC Canada
For commissions, exhibitions, or inquiries: peteryuill@gmail.com
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