Celeste Woodes Koper grew up outside of Boston Massachusetts spending most of her summers on Cape Cod.

 A cross country summer long trip with her family at the age of 12 changed her view of the world.  During that trip she experienced the beauty of nature and all its diversity .  Her love of nature, it's beauty and moodiness is apparent in her colorful evocative paintings.  Paintings depicting the American landscape.

 Ms. Koper is mostly a self taught painter.    She has taken occasional workshops at the Cape Cod School of Art and Scottsdale Artist School.  Her paintings are in private and corporate collections around the world including France, England, Germany and China.

Ms. Koper's paintings have been incorporated into television and movie set designs.  Along with her many other accomplishments  Ms. Koper taught art at the Gatehouse Academy in Wickenburg Arizona during the winter season.

 She owns and operates her own Fine Art Gallery for the past 20 summer seasons in Wellfleet Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

Ms. Koper presently divides her time between Wellfleet on Cape Cod and Sarasota County Florida.