Peter Mark Schouten AM FRSN is an Australian artist and wildlife illustrator whose work is featured in publications across zoology and paleontology (prehistoric life forms).
Schouten has always seen himself more as a drawer than a painter, even though his father was an artist who worked predominantly in oil. He also wanted to work in a zoo, but ended up pursuing a degree in architectural draughting in the late 1970s. It was his sustained drawing practice that landed him the first gig doing wildlife illustrations professionally.
