Andrew Peters   b.1954

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.

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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