Obama Touched by a Star - Acrylic on Canvas 16'' x 39''

Inventive colors, gestural lines and approachable subject matter make the work of Pepi Vegas a uniquely pleasurable viewing experience. Frequently choosing imagery directly from everyday life, Vegas’ work transcends the realm of simple still life to create something greater.  Working in acrylic paint on paper, Vegas’ paintings have a decidedly human scale, making them easily relatable. Yet their glistening, jewel-toned colors captivate the viewer, making them seem magical and almost otherworldly.

By simplifying forms to their barest essentials, often delineating them with sprightly applied thin strokes of paint, her works play with the eye: appearing at once completely abstracted yet entirely figurative.  Equally fascinating is her masterful dexterity with acrylic paint.  Where some works have a thick, impasto quality, others painted out of the very same medium, appear light and ethereal, as if painted from watercolor.  Vegas’ recurrent depiction of animal and plant subject matter comes not only from a desire to paint from life, but reflects her deep passion for nature and humanity’s detrimental effects upon it.  Vegas’ works connect each viewer to the inherent beauty of the world around us and serve as an inspiration to protect those things that are most fragile.

Pepi Vegas has exhibited internationally and lives and works in Valencia, Spain.

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