Peter Zell is an oil, acrylic, and watercolor painter who retired to Sanibel Island, Florida after a 32-year career practicing law in Southern California. While working and raising a family, he enjoyed ceramics and painting as an avocation and occasionally took art classes at Santa Ana College and other venues in Orange County.
Since retiring and moving to Florida, Peter has received awards in art competitions throughout Southwest Florida, including 2nd place at the Winner’s Circle Exhibition in 2007. He was nominated for best new artist in the Angel of the Arts competition at the Alliance for the Arts in 2008 and was featured as an emerging artist by Grandeur Magazine in Fort Myers. In December 2018, Peter was one of four Southwest Florida artists profiled in Gulf Shores Life magazine. Times of the Islands magazine featured an article on his artwork in its February/March 2019 issue. His paintings have been accepted by the Butler Institute of American Art for its summer exhibitions in Youngstown, Ohio (2013 and 2015).
Peter has participated in a number of solo and group shows in Sanibel, Captiva and Fort Myers and currently exhibits his paintings at Big Arts on Sanibel Island, the Sanibel Public Library, the Captiva Community Association, and the Sanibel Community House. He is a past president of the Sanibel-Captiva Art League.
Peter enjoys painting “en plein air” year-round in Southwest Florida. He has participated in and won awards at national plein air competitions in Punta Gorda, Cape Coral and Fort Myers Beach. His artwork may be viewed at Bubbly Latitude Gallery located in the Bell Tower Shops, Fort Myers.
