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Andrew PetersAndrew Peters' paintings will be included this year in the premier museum invitationals Prix de West at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and The Masters of the American West at The Autry National Center. It marks nearly twenty years combined participation in these prestigious museum shows. He will give a Saturday demonstration painting live while describing his technique at Prix de West. This will include a Power Point of images from his wide travels painting on location and insights as to why travel teaches creative behaviors. In May Andy travels to southern Colorado to paint en plein air in Mesa Verde National Park with colleagues who will ultimately show their finished works together at an event titled Rims to Ruins at the Denver Public Library.

July finds him painting on the Roaring Fork River of Colorado. In August he is in the saddle and up the trail with friend and mentor Tucker Smith on a pack trip to Fremont Crossing high in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. He will show for the twelfth year at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole at their annual invitational Western Visions in September.

Andrew PetersAndrew Peters’ paintings are the result of a life spent in nature. Growing up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he was usually hunting and fishing with his father in the Missouri River Valley. At nearby Fontenelle Forest he was mentored in ecology by naturalist James Malkowski. He drew birds from life and Audubon prints, and studied academic painting in the studio of Fran Day. He earned a bachelor of Sciences degree from Iowa State University with a minor in art, and won the Iowa Duck Stamp competition at the age of 22 which launched his fine art career.

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Painting in plein air Mt Assiniboine, B.C. Canada.

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                                          Bridges of MiraclesThe Joslyn Art Museum provided Andrew with his earliest art lessons and the complete collection of original watercolors by Karl Bodmer which kindled his passion for travel and painting onsite. He roamed Africa for a year painting game animals and indigenous peoples. He has painted throughout North and South America and in Romania, Morocco, Spain, Italy, France, and Ireland. His plein air paintings faithfully capture light and beauty from life and are a key strength of his richly imbued larger works. “A painting should read like a window onto a place,” he says, “luminous and fresh. He believes that light- not line- determines form.

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                                          TrailDuring each summer Andrew roams the intermountain west painting in the Nomad, his travel trailer modified into a studio. It puts him near his subjects for as long as needed to create works both elaborate and true. He builds crates, ships to galleries and museums and continues onward in search of new landscapes. “It is sustainable travel, mostly in wilderness and without constraints”. He has traveled 16,000 miles in a few months in this way and believes it to be the best way to create the highest quality paintings of the American landscape.

Andrew’s work is sold by Trailside Galleries in Jackson, WY and Scottsdale, AZ, Anderson O'Brien Fine Art in Omaha NE, and The Howell Gallery in Oklahoma City, OK. He resides in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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