Igor
Grigorievich Pertsev

Igor G. Pepper was born in Kharkiv, into a family of professional artist Grigory Mikhailovich Pertseva. Shortly after the birth of Igor, the family moved to Donetsk, where Igor and raised. Father helped prepare him in the Voronezh art College, where he studied for two years.

In 1988 Igor Pertsev moved to St. Petersburg. Igor fell in love with the city at first sight and always considered himself a St. Petersburg artist, after all, Peter was born his unique style which he will not change. The main thing for Igor - color, light, texture, composition, and figurative story would distract from the main. The plot of his paintings have, but it's irrational, philosophical and intuitive.

Igor wrote some of his first abstract paintings in the Studio for the legendary the address of Gangut 8. With fellow artists involved in various informal vystavka, one of which was called simply "On the Fence", exhibited in the room of the Novgorod Kremlin.

Igor sells almost all of its Katina through dealers in Germany. In 1991 he decides himself, together with his wife and child, sent abroad. In 1993 he organized his solo exhibition in a German village, Ginny, he also participated in the exhibition in the gallery "the Triangle" in Aachen. Here in Germany, has finally formed his style which he sticks to until the end of life. Sometimes, though, he wrote still lifes and landscapes to order. In 1994, the Peppers family returned to Russia but less than two years after they leave in the Czech Republic. In the Czech Republic Igor continues to write, although nowhere exposed, except for two pictures taken in the gallery "Pyramida" in Prague.

A few years spent on the paperwork to Canada, where they moved in 2001. Igor writes a lot of new paintings for the speed shifting from oil to acrylic. Igor involved in 2005 in the exhibition "Fragments" at the Museum Todmorden mills in Toronto, exhibited in 2010 at the public library of the city.

Over time, Igor longer working on his abstract paintings, paying more attention to the details. Igor uses in his paintings the ancient method of glazing in which the light is refracted in a multitude of colorful layers, reflected from the bright underpainting. As it turned out, a paint English and American production is not as transparent as the German, but Igor is still a large stock from Germany. Igor also writes a few figurative works: horses, landscapes, still lifes and a few female figures.

In 2014, Igor is dying of liver cancer in Toronto.

Probably about a hundred paintings of Igor scattered around the world. Most settled in Germany, some went to the United States or in Australia. Here in Russia, it seems, none of the no collector of his work. Haceta that in Russia, people looked at his paintings, at least through the Internet. Igor himself said that works for all hallowesta or "Für das Museum" - "Museum", as joked a woman, a fan of his paintings.