Amy Randolph Lepping

Amy Lepping is a South Carolina–based artist whose work is rooted in a quiet reverence for imperfection and the fleeting beauty of the natural world. Painting primarily in oils, she draws on a philosophy passed down from her father: to embrace what is, remain present, and find grace in life’s simplest moments—an outlook deeply aligned with Japanese aesthetics.

Raised along the New Jersey shore, Lepping spent much of her early life immersed in water, whether in the ocean or drifting down rivers. This influence flows through her Water Series, where viewers are invited to surrender, to drift, and to experience the rhythmic, ever-changing nature of water. In her broader practice, she incorporates elements of ikebana and floriography, using flowers as symbolic language.

Through luminous color and intentional, delicate brushwork, her compositions explore impermanence and the evolving relationship between humans and nature. For this exhibition, her fairy house design extends these ideas into three dimensions, becoming a small, immersive sanctuary. Like her paintings, it encourages pause and attention, inviting viewers to step closer and rediscover a sense of wonder in the overlooked, the ephemeral, and the quietly magical.