Featured Artist: Andrea Peterson

Raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, Andrea attended East Carolina University studying Communication Arts with a B.A. in illustration.  She continued to study fine art painting and is largely self-taught. Andrea's paintings have been featured in exhibitions throughout the United States and London.  Andrea currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she is continually inspired by natural beauty and travel.

Artist statement: 

“I create imaginative figure and animal paintings inspired by nature and emotion. My latest prism paintings take everyday scenes and subject matter and applies a contemporary cubist-like style to them. The idea one day arose from noticing my paintings leaning behind a large piece of stained glass (creating stained glass was a favorite hobby of my grandfather). Applying this prism style to my oil paintings in triangular patches of color creates a kaleidoscope-type image, where the viewer experiences a captured moment in time.  My most recent paintings include an abundance of bursting florals and butterflies, inspired by the old Dutch Masters, and abstractly referencing themes of awakenings, seasonal metamorphosis and the beauty of the world."