He has created hundreds of icons for private collectors, churches, and other institutions throughout the world.
His workshops give even the most inexperienced painter the skills to paint their own icon.
He also trained with Valentin Streltsov of Toronto, Canada, Nicholas Papas in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Father Damian Higgins at the Sisters of Saint Basil Monastery, Fox Chase, Pennsylvania, Xenia Pokrovsky at Saint Tikhon's Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, at the Iconography Institute at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon, where he studied with Charles Rohrbacher of Juneau, Alaska, with Michael Kapeluck of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and Philip Davydov of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Pearson also studied architectural drafting and color at the International Institute of Design in Washington, D.C., and theology, with a specialization in liturgical studies, at St. John's Seminary in Boston, Georgetown University, and at Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude, completing a Master of Divinity degree in 1995.
Peter has served a number of parishes as a priest for over 25 years and is a vowed member of a Franciscan community in the Episcopal/Anglican Church.