Peter Waddell creates images of places in history. He brings life to the site by showing the men and women who designed and inhabited the homes, as well as the workers and servants who were an equally important part of the story. His work enables guardians of historic sites to transport their visitors to earlier times and places.

To this challenge, Peter Waddell brings almost twenty-five years experience as both practitioner and teacher of his art, first in his native New Zealand, and over the last eight years in his adopted country, the United States. He has "restored" gardens to their original design and "removed" later furnishings to disclose a room's original character.