Meet the Artist
Ian Petersen
Digital Art
Maps of real places, created digitally, Ian Petersen blends mapping tools & digital drawing to delineate borders, contours & shading. Works are original and not derived from existing maps. Limited editions are printed on canvas or paper. Ian’s purpose is simple: map what matters.
Much of Ian’s life has been lived outdoors, whether doing extensive field work as an ecologist or traveling the back-country on his own explorations. The connection and isolation of landscapes have always been fascinating to him, and maps are a marvelous way to abstractly represent these landscapes; they are a language, a non-linear one, communicating about natural features in an accessible format. Ian wanted maps that cut away the unneeded, leaving only what is essential to a place - maps that feel like poetry rather than long prose.