He has a BA in Art and Art History from Amherst College, and a PhD in Art History from Harvard. Peter belongs to an artists' community at the Indian Orchard Mills. He has worked extensively throughout New England, and also on many trips to exotic places. He works quickly, finishing a portrait in two sessions of less than an hour, and a landscape in a single 1-hour session. The five panels Peter produced are all based on1960’s counterculture poster art, concentrating on anti-war and free love themes. He also focused on stencil portraits which were much in vogue at the time.