Brief Summary
Pepper Tharp - Fashion and Lifestyle Illustrator
Sophisticated fun--urban street chic illustration!
Pepper Tharp's work is elegant, refined, and inspired...coined 'Nuevo French' she delivers fresh and luscious and illuminated images. Her illustrations are wrapped in wisdom and spring from a fountain of expertise, smarts, light humor.
Her savvy solutions are found in advertising, fashion, product, lifestyle, luxury, publishing, packaging, book jackets, gift, greeting and stationery design.
Living in a historic 1883 cottage that she continues to attempt to restore in the Lakes District of Minneapolis (along with raising two very swell children Matisse and Pierce Merriam) she's dedicated years to the restoration and preservation of her little historic urban district called Linden Hills. Pep's an avid tennis player, sailor, foodie, friend, and a self proclaimed humorist and pundit.
Clients
Clients:
American Express, America West, Baci Chocolates, Bloomsbury Press
Bradford Exchange,The Container Store, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin,
Henry Holt Publishing, Kohl's, Gallo Wines, Lord & Taylor, Nestle, Meredith Publishing,
Schurman Fine Papers, Mayo Clinic, Macy's,Pictura Inc., St. Martin’s Press, Ritz-Carlton,Talbot’s, Penguin Putnam, Papyrus, Rodale, Target, Vera Wang.
Professional Experience
Minneapoils College of Art and Design ( MCAD), Fine Art
San Francisco Academy of Art College, Illustration
University of Minnesota, BLA