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Muddy Hands

Painting with what the Earth has to offer

Paintings by Peter Kinney

Published in the March/April 2009 issue of Orion magazine



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Costa Rica Moon, 2003

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Peter Kinney's paintings appear in his book Earth, Moon, and Sun. He lives in Pennsauken, New Jersey, and regularly exhibits at Philadelphia's Highwire Gallery.

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