A painter and illustrator, Peters' work has been shown nationally for over a decade. In his most recent series, Peters has explored the changing impressions of the ocean, capturing the overlapping striations of color in mesmerizing, transparent and ethereal ways that the water and sky present themselves. The artist has also combined nineteenth-century German romanticism with collage art, super-flat pop art and color field paint-ing. A recurring theme in Peters' work is the idea of pre-conceived notions of beauty. Having been brought up in a picture-book perfect environment where any disorder was a catastrophe, the artist has grown, in his own words, "suspicious of beauty, of value and of desire." His paintings are an attempt to reconcile his most immediate surroundings. A backyard fruit tree turns into an "overworked, overproducing glitzy starlet, with perfect, supple fruit that should be on the cover of a cosmetic package." It begs the question: What beauty can I trust?