You’re not looking at this painting—you’re being looked into.

In “Look Into My Eyes,” Peter Maier captures the raw, disarming gaze of a snow monkey with such intensity, it borders on spiritual. Every hair, every shimmer of reflected light in the iris is achieved through a painstaking layering process using automotive paint and clear coat techniques Maier pioneered after decades as a top car designer at DuPont and Porsche.

What sets this apart isn’t just the lifelike detail. It’s how alive it feels. The eyes are wet. The fur is soft. The creature seems to breathe.

Maier doesn’t paint in pigment—he paints in light. Working on aluminum, he layers Axalta Cromax AT in such fine gradients that the result is luminescent. The transparency of his layering reveals internal color shifts and surface glow impossible in traditional media. It’s not simply realism. It’s a mechanical form of emotion.

This is not just a painting of an animal—it’s a portrait of consciousness.
A conversation between species. A mirror for the human soul.

“LOOK INTO MY EYES”

2017

Dimensions: 70” X 60”

Medium: Axalta Cromax AT on Aluminum

Artist: Peter Maier