Alan Fetterman is an American plein-air impressionist oil painter from Buck's County in Pennsylvania. He began painting in earnest after a trip to the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, when he was 35 years old.
Fetterman was born September 8, 1958 to a military family, moving to bucks county in 1963. Alan graduated from Central Bucks East High School in 1976. He has a degree in American Studies from Bucks County Community College, earned in 1998. He is a Kay Scholar in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, earned in 2008.

Before becoming a painter Fetterman worked in construction. He traveled all over the world, from Europe to South America, learning about the different cultures and sketching what he saw. In 1988, while v...