Art by Roger Peet
I'm an artist and a printmaker. My work tends to focus on the contemporary crisis of biodiversity and what can and can't be done about it. I'm a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative (justseeds.org), a group of North American artists producing socially and environmentally engaged artwork. Click on the thumbnails at right for larger images and more information.
Dwarf Seahorses are the third smallest seahorse in the world, living in seagrass beds in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coast of Florida, and the Caribbean. Their numbers have plunged in recent years thanks to the elimination of seagrass, pollution from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and commercial collection for the pet trade.
I made this print from the original paper-cut design commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity for their Endangered Species Condoms series.
This is an entirely handmade 5-color silkscreen print, cut from paper and rubylith and printed at Flight 64 studio in Portland, OR. It’s printed on high-quality acid-free French paper in a signed and numbered edition. Buy it here.
I made this print from the original paper-cut design commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity for their Endangered Species Condoms series. The leatherback is the largest of all sea turtles, growing up to seven feet long. They are the last of an ancient line of turtles. Their numbers are declining rapidly wherever they occur, mostly as a result of human activity: they frequently mistake plastic bags for their favorite food, sea jellies, and die when their digestive systems clog with plastic. As a consequence of their decline (and that of other jelly predators) the oceans are filling with enormous jelly blooms.
This is a handmade print, cut from paper and rubylith and printed at Flight 64 studio in Portland, OR. It’s printed on high-quality acid-free French paper, in a signed and numbered edition. Get it here.
This is an image of the Vaux’s Swifts that swarm at dusk, during September, into the chimney of Chapman Elementary school in Portland, OR. For me the stars of the show have always been the small predatory birds that show up to punch tasty morsels out of the tornado of swifts. Available at my Etsy page
I was recently commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity to design the second round of their Endangered Species Condoms packages. I plan to make them all into prints, like this one: the Polar Bear. This one is available at Justseeds.
