Pete Prown

Pete Prown has led a 35-year career in journalism, working in two dissimilar fields – the music business and Philadelphia gardening world. He’s worked as a writer, magazine editor, and landscape photographer. Pete is also an author with several fiction and non-fiction books to his credit.

For the past 20 years, he’s also honed his skills as a painter specializing in wildlife and portraits, still life, landscapes, and botanicals. He’s exhibited his work in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Pete spends a great deal of time seeking the ideals of calm and contemplation in his art, music, writing, and daily jaunts in the woods and lanes of Delaware County. Moreover, they are all interrelated -- if he's walking, he's thinking about painting or music, while his creative endeavors are frequently about seeking the calm of Nature. In his mind, they're all one and the same.

Pete grew up in Connecticut and Vermont, surrounded by farms, pastures, and wooded landscapes, and this is reflected in his paintings. Everything seems to refer back to that idea, along with his 20-years of work in the professional-gardening sphere of Philadelphia. Pete's ongoing work is about challenging himself to try new subjects in that vein, as well as still lifes. This is rewarding and keeps him moving forward.

“Among the artists that appeal to me include Martin Johnson Heade, Raphaelle Peale, William Trost Richards, Jasper Johns, Asher B. Durand, N.C. Wyeth, John Singer Sargent, and George Stubbs.”