 In
2012 Andrew Peters will be
included in Masters of the
American West at the Autry
National Center in Los Angeles
for the eighth year. He is the
keynote speaker at the C.M.
Russell Museum in Great Falls,
Montana in March where he will
also demonstrate his painting
techniques and have two
paintings on auction there in an
event called The Russell. In
April he teaches a plein air
workshop at St. Simon's Island,
GA and juries a competition. He
has been invited to exhibit for
the sixth time in the Prix de
West Invitational in June at the
National Cowboy and Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma
City. In September he will be
included in the twenty fifth
anniversary exhibition of
Western Visions at the National
Museum of Wildlife Art in
Jackson, Wyoming; have a new
painting
in the Jackson Hole Art Auction,
and will debut twelve new
paintings in a solo show at The
Howell Gallery in Oklahoma City.
Painting trips will again be
into the backcountry of the
Canadian Rockies, Wyoming's Wind
River Range, a return to New
Mexico, as well as midwestern
sojourns.
 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.Contact Andrew Peters >> |
