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Hans Peeters
1050 Kilkare Rd.
Sunol, CA 94586 USA

hjpeeters1@gmail.com

Hans Peeters splits his time between science and art, merging the two whenever possible. A biology professor for 36 years, he started painting seriously in the 1970s. He writes and illustrates books(most recently, two field guides, one on raptors and one on owls, for University of California Press)and acts as both a scientific consultant and artist for books by others. His long-term scientific study of Golden Eagles also intertwines with art; Mexico uses his paintings of eagles (and other endangered fauna) on postage stamps. In Panama, his painting of a Harpy Eagle is used to promote conservation. Travels in India led to a commission to paint color plates of Indian birds for the Smithsonian Institution.

Style:

He has two distinct styles, but most of his work is of representational wildlife painted in acrylics, a detail-friendly medium that allows an emphasis both on the scientific accuracy of his subjects and their individuality. What he calls his looser "ecological core" paintings in oil or acrylic, by contrast, do not always contain animals, yet they always define a species, including plants and occasionally reptiles; they are about color, light, and pattern in the natural world and have appeared in the magazine of elegant interiors, Architectural Digest.
Media:

Mostly acrylics and oils
Preferred species:
 A raptor specialist, but enjoys painting other birds as well (and mammals).
Preferred geographic region:
 Very familiar with birds from the Americas, Europe, East Africa, and parts of India and Australia.
Preferred use of earlier or new work:
 Either.
See also:
electronic media:


http://peeters.homestead.com
selected published images:

Books
Owls of California and the West, Hans Peeters, University of
.. California Press, 2007.
Raptors of California, Hans Peeters & Pam Peeters, University
...of California Press, 2005.
The Best of Wildlife Art, Rachael Rubin Wolf (ed.), North Light
.. Books, 1997.
Book of North American Birds, Reader's Digest Association,
.. 1990.
Wildlife Art, Alan Singer, Quarry Press, 1999.
All the Birds of North America, Jack Griggs, Harper Collins,
.. 1997.
California Mammals, E. W. Jameson Jr. & Hans J. Peeters,
.. University of California Press, 1990.
.. Additional Bibliographic Information.