Peter Beadle (1933 – February 2021) was a New Zealand artist based in Arrowtown. In 2010, he and his son Simon opened an art gallery called the Arrowtown Gallery. He had three books published about landscapes in the

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of New Zealand. The books contain paintings and sketches by Peter with descriptive text also written by him. In the

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, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to painting.

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