 Andrew
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
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.
Painting in plein air Mt
Assiniboine, B.C. Canada.
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 The
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.
 During 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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