Friday, January 27, 2023 – Photos of the Day – Cruising The Pacific Ocean

James Grant-Peterkin | Featured Lecturer

The Trouble Life Of Paul Gaugin

Understand the complex artist who spent his formative years in French Polynesia

James Grant-Peterkin is a Cambridge University graduate and the British Honorary Consul on Easter Island. He has been studying Polynesian culture, linguistics, and archaeology for over 20 years, most of those while living on Easter Island. He is the author of the guidebook “A Companion to Easter Island”. He has lectured extensively on Eastern Polynesia on cruise ships and at educational institutions worldwide.

Eugène Gauguin  (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia in 1903 where he is buried. The paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.