Wesley Pepper

Wesley Pepper was born in the historical town Kimberly in 1978.

He started a Diploma in Fine Art at the Free State Technikon, Bloemfontein. Here he majored in oil painting, ceramics and drawing. In 2001 he explored graphic art (on computer) at the Oval International College.

He joined Artist Proof Studios in 2004 as a part time student. In 2006 he completed 3 years as a full time student working in linocut, wood cut, dry point, marley tile etching, drypoint and monotypes.

Wesley has had experience as a gallery assistant, worked at the Northern Cape visual arts and crafts forum as well as co-founded Reunited Siblings, a spoken word and fine art company (www.reunitedsiblings.co.za) that has published three anthologies.

He writes that:

Being an artist I found it extremely hard to adapt to the everyday life, I always found myself crawling inside a cloudy head, full of perspectives and perceptions of what is normal and why am I hear. In life everything is either, a solid, liquid or gas. And since it’s all matter, and matter is, pure energy. I find myself bouncing too and from this world and my own.

My art is the consequence of that reaction.

Information courtesy of the artist