Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Peter Adams has a degree in film studies from Queen's University but now directs all his creative energy toward paining. After moving from Toronto to a farm near Creemore, Ontario in 1998, he began to investigate places in which human and natural worlds meet—both in harmony and opposition.

"Since moving from an urban to a rural setting, I have spent many years exploring the surrounding landscape and the ever-changing human relationship with landscape. The unprecedented demand for limestone aggregate in Ontario led me to research the largest holes in the earth. Since that time, I have focused on landscapes transformed by humans in other parts of the world. I see the paintings in my Earth Scars Series as reflecting pools for a discourse on our relationship with landscape and our changing attitudes toward resources."