Peggi Habets: February 2026
Peggi Habets is a painter based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After years of teaching, writing, and exhibiting across the country, she has turned her focus inward—devoting her practice to the study of connection between humans and the natural world. Her recent work explores what she calls a “language of reverence,” reflecting on the interdependence of plants and people and the emotional terrain that links them.
Throughout her career, her paintings have been collected and exhibited internationally and recognized by the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society. Habets’ work was selected from more than 7,000 entries for the prestigious Shanghai Watercolour Biennial and the Shenzhen International Watercolour Exhibition in China.
Her artwork has appeared in numerous publications, including The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist, The Art of Watercolour, L’Art de L’Aquarelle, Women United Art Magazine, and Pratique des Arts, as well as the Splash: Best of Watercolor series and Artist, Mother, Proud & Serious, Vol 2. She is the author of Watercolor Made Easy: Portraits and has contributed to The Art of Drawing and Painting Portraits and Faces & Features.
For years, I painted in search of a voice that felt true. What I found wasn’t a style so much as a way of listening—to the world around me and to the quiet intelligence of nature. My work has become an exploration of the powerful relationship between humans and the natural world, a relationship that feels increasingly distant in the modern age.
Beneath the Surface investigates the profound but often overlooked connections between human and botanical life. In this series, plant forms and human figures intertwine, reflecting how we mirror the organic world and how it, in turn, mirrors us. Beneath our visible differences lies a shared essence—one rooted in resilience, adaptation, and the will to survive.
Botanical imagery in my work is not solely about beauty, though that element is present. Instead, it speaks to reciprocity and communication between species, and the dichotomy of fragility and strength, decay and regeneration.
Ultimately, Beneath the Surface is a call to remember our place within the larger living network we belong to. Through these works, I hope to rekindle a sense of reverence for the interdependence that sustains us.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Figuratively, February 4–March 28, 2026, Icon Fine Art Gallery, Zelienople, PA
emBODYment, April 18–May 31, 2026, Zynka Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Solo Exhibition, June 1 – July 31, Nemacolin Art Gallery, Farmington, PA
Past Exhibitions:
Magical Botanicals, 2025, Nemacolin Art Gallery, Farmington, Pa
Untangling our Roots, Spring 2024, Pittsburgh Botanical Garden, Pittsburgh, PA
