Pepiro
van Roncha
I build figures and scenes — in ceramic and in oil paint — of individuals in contemplative practice and the inner experiences that arise in such contemplation. My pieces are also timestamps of ideas, conversations, and lived experiences.
My sculptures are stoneware, hand-built and table-top in size, with an antique, archaic flair. The paintings are oil on canvas, closer in spirit to Mexican magical realism than to straight realism. Different materials and styles, same intention.
My art doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from years of Buddhist practice, my Mexican heritage, and from two decades spent as a designer, crafting stories for others before I started building my own.
Pepiro van Roncha is a visual artist based in Davis, California. Born in Mexico, he has lived and worked across Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States — experiences that shape a practice centered on awareness, causality, and the quiet stories running underneath everyday life.
He spent over twenty years as a graphic designer and art director, a background that brings rigorous visual thinking to a studio practice built on ceramic sculpture and oil painting.
His ceramic figures are hand-built in stoneware and fired in his studio. His paintings work in the tradition of Mexican magical realism. Both bodies emerge from a long-standing Buddhist practice.
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For general inquiries, exhibition proposals, commissions, or collector questions
hi@pepiro.com