Lightning Strike 2023
by Peter Mcfarlane
36" x 15"

Coming home usually late in the evening from my computer salesman job in Toronto, and bringing with me obsolete circuit boards from work, they became my canvas.

The dark urban landscape was what I witnessed, so I began painting them as I re-examined the definition of landscape art. I use paint and re-solder the circuits to recreate the lights of the city and the incredible lightning storms common in Eastern Canada.

I started this reimagined circuit board landscape series before moving to Salt Spring Island 25+ years ago. I always imagined I was one of the few lights on, late at night, getting ready for my next art exhibition.

“To me, garbage and waste are just a lack of imagination.”

Peter Mcfarlane

Peter McFarlane is a conceptually driven sculptor and mixed media artist known for transforming discarded objects into philosophically charged artworks. Working with obsolete circuit boards, broken tools, and cast-off industrial debris, he re-contextualizes everyday materials to explore waste, value, and imagination. His award-winning works are held in public and private collections across Canada and internationally.

Artist Statement

“I am a conceptually based sculptor and mixed media artist. Most of my materials are discarded or obsolete objects—circuit boards, broken tools, industrial scrap—that arrive already loaded with history. I reorganize and reconstruct these fragments to free them from their previous functions and open them to new meaning. For me, garbage and waste are simply a lack of imagination; each object has the potential to become a metaphor. In re-using these materials, I’m not solving the problem of waste, but I am symbolically slowing it down and asking viewers to reconsider what, and who, we throw away.”

Peter McFarlane

Available Artworks

Peter Mcfarlane

Escalator / Escalate $3,000.00 CAD

Volcano $1,850.00 CAD

Obsolete and Extinct $1,650.00 CAD

Orange Sunset $800.00 CAD

Each object has the potential to become a metaphor.

Traffic $950.00 CAD

City Sunset $1,800.00 CAD

Ghost Apples in a Snowstorm $1,500.00 CAD

Purple Strike $1,500.00 CAD

Comet Shower $1,500.00 CAD

Lightning Over the City $1,300.00 CAD

Northern Lights $1,600.00 CAD

Blue Night Lightning Strike $1,500.00 CAD

Raven $5,500.00 CAD

Clearcut $2,000.00 CAD

Corral Jump $4,000.00 CAD

Messengers $3,800.00 CAD

Peter McFarlane Reused Scrap Metal Sculpture with Parashute Man Landing on Re-purposed Fan

Fandangle $3,500.00 CAD

Nail Gun Bomb Run $3,500.00 CAD

Nickelback Beaver $3,000.00 CAD

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Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike 2023by Peter Mcfarlane 36" x 15"

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Lightning Strike 2023
by Peter Mcfarlane
36" x 15"