Paper artist: Tahiti Pehrson | Nevada City (US) | By Lee Fleming

Tahiti Pehrson is a visual artist based in Nevada City who creates mesmerising two and three-dimensional tapestries. Growing up in an artistic family in Northern California, Pehrson first found himself painting on the street and experimenting by cutting out stencils on sticker paper. This experimentation lead to further development and fifteen years later, Pehrson creates large-scale artworks inspired by architectural forms and motifs inspired by nature.

The patterns in Pehrson’s work are intricate and draw upon history and the natural world; when cutting patterns out of money Tahiti discovered Guilloche, a system of ancient architectural patterns that date back to the Greek and Roman eras. Pehrson found this discovery to be ‘a motif of universality in currency’ and those patterns weave in and out of his work.

With only 11 blades and a white cotton rag paper, Pehrson creates beautiful geometric paper masterpieces that have been exhibited all over the world, from San Francisco to Portland, New York and Paris. His most recent solo exhibition ‘New Works’ can be found at Mouki Mou in Marylebone, West London alongside an upcoming exhibition at the K.Imperial Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco in October.

To read more about Pehrson and his paper art visit his website.