Featured image: Landscape of a Dream, Jody Peters, 2023, acrylic, 22 x 28 in. / 55.88 x 71.12 cm.
Jody Peters creates imaginative works that blur the line between reality and dream, often exploring the transformative power of stories, symbols, and fleeting moments.
Jody Peters creates surreal acrylic works that explore imagination, symbolism, and the shifting boundaries between reality and dream.
His paintings carry a surreal yet inviting quality, encouraging viewers to enter a space where meaning shifts and narratives expand. Through acrylic on canvas and wood, Peters crafts visual metaphors that invite reflection on creativity, memory, and imagination.
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Plot Twist, Jody Peters, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 16 in. / 30.48 x 40.64 cm.
In Plot Twist, Peters presents a book as more than an object—it becomes a living structure, opening into a shifting narrative. A figure peers from its pages, scattering letters and words into the void, suggesting the fragility of meaning and the way stories can collapse or transform with each turn. The clean geometry of the book contrasts with the organic motion of falling text, a reminder that imagination resists containment.
Flicker, Jody Peters, 2025, acrylic on wood, 12 x 9 in. / 30.48 x 22.86 cm.
Paying homage to Rene Magritte, Flicker captures the brief beauty of a candle’s flame dissolving into smoke. Yet the smoke here does more than vanish, it dances upward, and almost seems to form the shapes of figures in motion. The work captures a meditation on impermanence, showing how moments of grace emerge in the space between presence and absence. The simple composition magnifies the fleeting power of form and memory.
Lost in a Story, Jody Peters, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in. / 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Lost in a Story embraces the infinite possibilities of imagination. An open book transforms into a fantastical world: rivers flow, paths wind toward distant mountains, and surreal skies host flying creatures. Here, the act of reading becomes a portal, collapsing boundaries between text and lived experience. Peters captures the magic of stories not just as entertainment, but as alternate realms where the impossible becomes tangible.
Together, these works reflect Peters’ fascination with the transformative nature of creativity. Whether through text unraveling, smoke reshaping itself, or a book exploding into a landscape, each piece emphasizes how meaning is never fixed—it shifts, evolves, and expands with perception. His art celebrates the mystery and beauty of imagination, reminding us that stories, like life itself, are always in motion.
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Sixth Sense, Jody Peters, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 in. / 40.64 x 30.48 cm.
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