The paintings of E. Peter Darvas combine a wonderful versatility with brilliant expressiveness and flawless technical quality. His paintings deal with an ever-changing variety of subjects depicted in a distinctive impressionistic style. Utilizing bold, spontaneous strokes with a mastery of color, light, and texture, his canvases are alive with reality and expression, yet never appear belabored or meticulous.

Darvas works with watercolor, acrylics, and serigraphs; he also sculpts. However, his recent dedication is to the magnificent large oil canvases reflective of his Southwestern artistic heritage and frequent visits to Mexico, the Caribbean islands and the Mediterranean coast. His career as a professional artist spans some thirty years beginning with his first one-man show at age 16. Since then, Darvas has had 60 major exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. He has been featured in Southwest Art and Artists of the Rockies magazines and is included in the books Contemporary Western Artists and Marquis Who's Who.

Although Darvas holds a degree in fine art from the Universoty of Texas at Austin, he received most of his training living in Taos, New Mexico for 10 years, traveling the Southwest, and being a part of its rich artistic ambiance. At present he divides his time between his two residences and studios at South Lake Tahoe, California and San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico.