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Peter Buwalda

Portrait of landscape painter Peter Buwalda standing beside one of his large-scale paintings in an art gallery.

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Buwalda Fine Art Studio · BFA · Class of 1999

www.buwaldafineartstudio.com/

Peter Buwalda is a professional artist living outside Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Kimberly. Peter's work has been collected privately and publicly worldwide, including his honeybee images, which are still on display in the education building at the National Agriculture Museum in Ottawa, Canada.

Peter graduated with distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1999. He has been developing his unique style of painting with acrylic ink on stretched watercolor paper for more than 25 years. Using a blend of wet and dry mark-making techniques, his approach juxtaposes control with chaos to imbue expressive emotion and life.

Peter's strong passion for documenting trees is now predominant in his Colorado body of work. With each twisted branch, knotted root or budding leaf, Peter's trees transcend the mundane. More than simply icons of the landscape, they evoke the strength of the human condition and represent hope and perseverance. Viewers are connected personally to Peter's trees and the emotional stories told through the primordial wisdom of his subjects. These stories echo the majesty, hardship and fortune of our own lives, through will or by chance.

SIERRA LA SAL Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. Moab, Utah. 40"x30".
Everlast Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. 36"x48".
Westerly Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. 30"x40".
Ascending Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. 40"x30".

Peter Buwalda's Work

Peter Buwalda's Work Large acrylic ink landscape painting of a weathered juniper tree twisting across a red desert foreground with snow-capped mountains in the distance.
SIERRA LA SAL Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. Moab, Utah. 40"x30".
Peter Buwalda's Work Acrylic ink painting of intertwined juniper branches with a vivid blue Steller's jay perched among weathered trunks against a light background.
Everlast Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. 36"x48".
Peter Buwalda's Work Panoramic landscape painting of a windswept juniper overlooking rolling grasslands, a winding river valley, and distant mountain peaks beneath a deep blue sky.
Westerly Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. 30"x40".
Peter Buwalda's Work Acrylic ink painting looking upward through rocky cliffs toward a resilient juniper tree beneath a luminous sky filled with dramatic clouds.
Ascending Acrylic ink on stretched and mounted arches paper. 40"x30".

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