My name is Kyle Hepp and I worked as a photographer in South America for over a decade, before I started painting two years ago. I have always loved museums, architecture, interior design, graffiti, murals, etc. Anything visually beautiful calls to me. Vivid color palettes and abstract expression bring me joy. I love Latin American surrealist painters like Rufino Tamayo and Maria Izquierdo.

I mostly paint the female form. The sacredness of women is what inspires me, not only when I’m creating, but in my daily life. We are subject to so much degradation out in the world, be it catcalling, fat shaming, slut shaming, not being nice enough, being called crazy or not being believed, that when I am working on a new piece, treating the women I paint with tenderness and preciousness is appealing to me. My work is a soft world in which women and their bodies, can exist peacefully.