Artist: Pepper Pepper

Artist’s Location: Florida and Italy

Date: December 2008

Medium: Mixed-Media on watercolor paper.

Dimensions: 22" x 28" framed.

Charity: Helen Keller International or Guide Dogs of America

Pepper on The Colors of the Wind:  "I love creating botanical art. I especially love it when it is of such natural beauty as an Iris (a double Iris). The idea was of the wind being the paintbrush adding the colors to the petals and to the background."

About Pepper Pepper: Celebrated for his romantic botanicals and brooding landscapes, Pepper Pepper's images echo pure beauty. His images of people, places, and things are far from ordinary. Sometimes provocative, sometimes emotional, but always overflowing with drama, Pepper's work is shaped by his understanding of nature and human sensibilities. Some images are ethereal and others are grounded in reality, but all decipher the human condition. From his exquisite black and white photography to the ballet of colors in his abstracts, his images are identifiable yet completely imaginary. His style has matured into a synthesis of photorealism and impressionism. Images of a glowing fire inside a Romanesque church or the withered foliage of an aging prize rose are re-imagined through the kaleidoscope layers in his work. Stone and water, petal and silk invite the viewer to explore the relationship between light and shadow, space and composition. Pepper Pepper's images are open doors that invite the viewer to pass through; a colorful and exciting journey always awaits.  

For more information about Pepper Pepper, please visit his website at www.pepperandcompany.com or find him on Twitter @Pepper Pepper.