From a very early age, Peter wanted to be an artist. After graduating from high school, he attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Md. where he received a bachelor’s degree in fine art. He also studied at the duCret School of Art in Plainfield, N.J. where he now teaches.

Through the years, he has worked in various fields of art such as greeting cards, caricatures, children’s books, computer graphics and portraiture.

For more than a decade, he worked for the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, N.J. as a graphic artist and illustrator. For many of those years he created cover art for the paper’s weekly TV guide. When he left the paper he had illustrated over 400 covers.

He now lives in Stroudsburg, Pa. as a free-lance artist. He was recently appointed director of the ARTSPACE Gallery and is a member of the Pocono Arts Council.

ARTIST STATEMANT: “I pray to God that He keeps blessing me each day with a spirit of excellence, and that He constantly imparts His will in my art and in my life” - Peter Ambush