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The Studio of Andrew Peters

The Studio of Andrew Peters

October 8, 2026 | by

How Andrew Peters Is Restoring Native Prairie and Wetlands as His Largest Artistic Creation   For most artists, 1,000 square inches represents a large canvas. But Andrew Peters is painting his biggest masterpiece on a living canvas of nearly 1 million square feet: approximately 20 acres of land that he’s actively shaping as home to his dream studio. “This is the painting that I will work on for the rest of my life,” he says of the “canvas” he frequently traverses and admires on foot. “The masterpiece of my lifetime will be the ecology and the beauty of a native
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Answering the Call of the Open Road

Answering the Call of the Open Road

January 19, 2016 | by

“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
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