Robert began painting seriously while studying art at Northern Arizona University. Growing up in Arizona, and his extensive travels throughout its dramatic geography, instilled in him a deep passion for nature and the outdoors. “The Western landscape is an endless source of inspiration to me,” Robert says. “I draw strictly from my own observations. That imparts an authentic and natural quality to my paintings. If something is in one of my paintings, I’ve been there and I’ve experienced it”.
That experience has included living across the greater Southwest. In the early 1990s, the Peters family left Arizona for Durango, Colorado. Peters continued his painting while he and his wife, Nanette, raised and competitively showed horses.
Peters has now returned home to the Southwest with his wife and children, their horses and dogs. He also exhibits at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Wyoming, and the Phippen Museum in Prescott, Arizona. Publications that have featured Peters’ landscape paintings are Art of the West, Cowboys and Indians, Equine Image, Persimmon Hill, Southwest Art, Western Horseman, and Wildlife Art. The US State Department selected several of his paintings for their Art in the Embassies exhibitions.
