Peters’ work is described as beautifully complex. In an essay by international art writer and critic Peter Frank (Sammy Peters: Painting Unbound, 2016) states, “Peters’ approach to painting straddles the material and the pictorial, delights in sensuous skin and color relationships at once dissonant and delicious, and combines the decorative and the narrative without telling stories or striving for retinal gratification. Such painting evades classification with a chameleon’s elusiveness, implicitly taunting those who would try to entrap it.”