“As a landscape painter, you want to kind of get your arms around the planet.”

So says Andrew Peters, who has made a valiant attempt to do just that, traveling far and wide to see and capture magnificent and varied landscapes. When he was just 25—three years after winning the Iowa Duck Stamp Competition—he packed up and headed to Africa, where he spent a year painting game animals and indigenous peoples. He’s also painted throughout North and South America, as well as in Romania, Morocco, Spain, Italy, France and Ireland and has plans to visit and paint in Slovenia. And he’s lived in several states, including New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona.

Eight years ago, however, Peters returned to his home state of Iowa, and today lives not far from his childhood home in Council Bluffs.

Andrew Peters

A Bend in the River
Oil
24″x30″
“In rural Utah last March, I explored broad mountain valleys in bright spring sunlight. The landscape seemed bursting awake on those warm radiant days. The sketch for this painting seemed to paint itself, so heady was the inspiration.”

Andrew Peters

The Lake of Glass
Oil
30″x40″
“The Lake of Glass lies cradled beneath Taylor Glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park. By painting a careful sketch onsite I strive to capture the impressive scale and varied moods. Precious are these intimate hours in an ice age wilderness.”